Cambridge Maths Students and Applicants

http://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/undergrad/documentation/readinglist/text.pdf

This is the university one.

Any books you would recommend to finish reading prior to applying for maths and going to interview?

Not necessarily the texts themselves, but books on more advanced mathematics that will help in application process?

Anyone start on their application for 2010 matriculation?

However, don't think that reading books then putting down that you've 'read books' on your personal statement is necessarily going to help you much in the interview. Any books you read should be for personal interest, not because 'cambridge said so'.

I'm a prospective applicant
Do we need A's in every module, as I heard somewhere that we do, but can't find the evidence.
Because M1 went ****, and I don't think I got an A in it, but I'm pretty I got an A overall as the core's went excellent.

No you don't. It will look strange, but they really seem to ignore everything except the interview. I got a C in C4 (kind of the most crucial module I'd taken) and got in.

They did specify in my offer to get 90% in it though.

I assume "M, W, F 10" translates to "Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 1000"?

Any other mathmo freshers been invited to the introductory course the week before everyone else starts? It says on my letter from Caius that it is organised jointly with a few other colleges, I was just wondering what it involved.

And what's it like, to any older mathmos that did it?

I'm still as puzzled as I was when I first found out a month ago that they decided to move IB Fluid Dynamics to Michaelmas without actually telling the students. The course info thing that Siklos emailed around at the end of Easter still says that Fluid is a Lent course. I'm sure there's gonna be someone out there who likes to do a lot of vacation reading being slightly annoyed at the fact that they haven't "prepared" themselves (pre-read) for the course at all when Michaelmas comes :P