Overview
MATH5295 is a Special Topic course in Applied Mathematics for Honours and Postgraduate Coursework students. The Topic title is - Fractional Calculus
Units of credit: 6
Prerequisites: Nil
Cycle of offering: Term 2
Graduate attributes: The course will enhance your research, inquiry and analytical thinking abilities.
More information: The Course outline will be made available closer to the start of term - please visit this website: www.unsw.edu.au/course-outlines, opens in a new window
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Course overview
The course will focus on methods of generalising calculus to non-integer orders, for example can we take half a derivative. We will also look at the uses of such generalisations. In order to facilitate this we will revise some mathematical methods that are helpful in the solution of fractional order problems. This is a very active area of mathematical research with many new papers and applications appearing each year.