Information for current undergraduates

Admissions information for prospective students is available here.

Items below: Useful links | Maths Office opening hours | Mason lecture theatre | Email etiquette | Requesting references

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Free online textbooks

The University of Minnesota Open Academics project offers free online textbooks in various subject areas including Mathematics & Statistics. They may be useful for some of our modules, especially as additional background reading.

Resits for students who started in September 2011

If you are currently in your first (level-4) year then you have only one resit attempt for each module, and (for MTH, BUS*, ECN and SBC modules) that will be a late summer resit this August.

*only where needed for progression

Professional accreditation and exemptions

Please see our updated information including CT3 actuarial exemption.

Plagiarism

This is presenting someone else’s work as if it were your own and is an assessment offence; see Plagiarism – ten key points for details.

Support your mathematics societies: The London Mathematical Society | The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications | The Royal Statistical Society

Opening hours for the Maths Office (room 101)

The Maths Office opening hours during term time are 9:00 am–5:00 pm (last admission 4:45 pm) every weekday except 2:00pm–2:30pm on Wednesdays. More limited opening hours may apply during vacations.

Mathematical Sciences lectures in the Mason lecture theatre

  • Students are not allowed to enter the Mason lecture theatre at ground floor level. This is because students waiting in the ground-floor lobby disrupt the lecture in progress.
  • Students are not allowed to sit at the back of the Mason lecture theatre, beside the projection booth. This is because the lecturer cannot see students who sit there. Even if you arrive late, you must sit in the main part of the lecture theatre; it will cause delays and disruption if the lecturer has to ask you to move.

Email etiquette

Email is the best way to contact College staff, but you must include your full name (as registered with the College) and your student number. Use standard and correct English with correct capitalisation; do not use abbreviations or colloquialisms. (Save "txtspk" for friends and family!) Address staff by their title and surname, e.g. Dear Prof. Khoruzhenk, Dr Prellberg, Mr White. You can check staff titles on our People pages. If you are replying to an email then please include a copy of that email.

If you follow the above requirements then you can reasonably expect an acknowledgement within about two working days and a full reply within about five working days during terms, but responses may take longer during vacations. If you do not follow the above requirements then we may ignore your email.

Requesting references

If you want an academic reference for a job or further study, you should normally ask your personal adviser. If you need a second reference, you should ask another member of academic staff who knows you and your work well, but they may refuse. If this happens then you may ask the Senior Tutor, Dr Oscar Bandtlow, but only as a last resort. He will only be able to write a general reference unless he knows you well.

You should always ask a member of staff well in advance whether they are willing to act as a referee before naming them on an application form. If you ask them by email then you must follow the email etiquette above. If you need letters of reference (rather than just names of referees), you should allow about two weeks for your referees to write them and referees may refuse to provide references with less than one week's notice.