05012 - Mathematical Supplement

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Fausto Desalvo
  • Credits: 4
  • SSD: MAT/03
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Geological Sciences (cod. 8015)

Learning outcomes

Objectives of the corse

To provide credits and fundamental statistical and mathematical elements to prepare the public contest to teach in lower secondary school.

Statistical methods are useful also for geologist.     

Course contents

Combinatories. Elements of univariate statistics. Cluster and Discriminant analysis. Presentation of: groups, rings and fields, geometric transformations (isometries, similarities, affinities), euclidean and non euclidean geometry, sequences, numerical series, logics.

Readings/Bibliography

G.PELLACANI, G. PETTINI & C. VETTORI, Istituzioni di Matematica , CLUEB, Bologna                                                                                                       Course material by the teacher and on line in the web site Teaching material

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

Oral test about two subjects raflled the day before: one pertaining statistics and probability, the second one  the other items.

Teaching tools

Slides

Office hours

See the website of Fausto Desalvo