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Why study math?

Recruitment

     Math Recuitment Video: Jumpstart your Career

     Check out our new Math Recruitment video! Find out about our programs,            potential careers and the student experience.

 SFU Mathematics: What will I learn in Higher Mathematics?

Find out more about the applications of Mathematics. This is an interesting and challenging field of study which leads to many career possibilities. Do consider making Math your major at SFU.

SFU Envision Video Contest

Check out this Video submission by Math students Adam Fong, Ken Calder, and Sherman Siu.

Math 150 Distance Education

MATH 150 Online: Calculus I with Review: 
Change the Rate of your Morning
Professors Jamie Mulholland and Veselin Jungic have prepared a special online version of of MATH 150: Calculus I with Review. This class will give you a break from that unevitable early morning rush.

MATH 150 Online: Calculus I with Review: 
Caculus from the Comfort Of Home
This video will give you a taste of what MATH 150 Distance is like. Online video lectures are used to bring the vertitable "Classroom Experience" to students, while having the convenience of home.

MATH 150 Online: Calculus I with Review: The Basic INFO

Enough humour! This video outlines the basics--the knitty-gritty--of MATH 150 Distance. Have a look.

Math Girl

Math Girl Episode 1: Differentials Attract

Math Girl uses her linear approximator to save her friend Pat Thagoras when he was stuck on Square Root Mountain. The episode illustrates the use of linear approximation and the differential of a function.

Math Girl Episode  2 - Zero!'s Dis-Continuity

When Zero! constructs the Sin T Over T Roller Coaster, Math Girl and Pat Thagoras use their epsilon-delta device and the limit to patch the hole on the top of the coaster and save the Big Math's twins from a danger.

Math Girl Episode 3 - Rationalize This

It is Pi Day in Calculopolis and Big Math is ready to inaugurate the Fountain of Pi as part of the Memorial of the Unknown Mathematician. Zero! sends his army of zeros to make pi finally equal 3.14 and to spoil the celebration. Math Girl and Pat use their BBP device to foil Zero!'s evil plan. (BBP stands for Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula).