Acknowledgements

This booklet was originally prepared by mathematics staff from various Higher Educational (HE) establishments in the UK, with revisions over many years. The objective is to help early stage undergraduate students develop study skills and good habits which will enhance their mathematical learning.

This edition includes major revisions by Emma Coutts and Laurence Nicholas1.

A list of some of the original contributors is given in the Appendix.

Cover Image The image above shows a square circumscribed by a circle and each edge of the square is the diameter of another circle. The red arc shaped areas are called lunes and they have the same area as one quarter of the square at the centre. The equivalency of the areas can be shown, mathematically, in different ways for example; using integral calculus to calculate the area between curves or from a geometric argument. This pretty pattern illustrates that there are often different approaches to the same problem using different mathematical tools!

  1. ISBN: 978-1-0687252-1-0↩︎