STEP Tuition

Dr Alice Auld will be holding STEP Tuition Lectures on Saturday 28th, from 13.00 - 16.30 and Sunday 29th, from 14.00 - 16.00. 

This lecture will be useful for the MAT exam and also covers some interview-style questions. It will include: the importance of prime numbers in building up the set of Natural numbers, from Euclid's Unique Prime Factorisation, some Proof by contradiction, including Euclid's proof of an Infinity of Primes, as well as 'Square root (2) is irrational', and what is really making this proof work, and hence how it can be extended to other algebraic irrationals, which also leads to important Number theory techniques that are tested in STEP, MAT and a lot at Interview.

The lecture will also cover some theory of Polynomials, including a thorough analysis of cubic curves and multiple roots, underlying 'Function' theory, including understanding how applying many-to-one functions can affect equations and inequalities, plus related understanding and techniques, that are somewhat hidden but all over STEP maths and the MAT. There will also be some interview-style questions where algebraic factorisation is used to solve some number theory problems.
 

The lectures will be held in David Game College, if you would like to attend or find out more information please visit her website at; http://www.steptuition.co.uk/#lecture