MATH2400 is a Mathematics Level II course. See the course overview below.

Units of credit: 3

Prerequisites: MATH1081 or MATH1231 or MATH1241 or MATH1251.

Cycle of offering: yearly in Semester 1.

Graduate attributes: the course will enhance your research, inquiry and analytical thinking abilities.

More information: this recent course handout(pdf) contains information about course objectives, assessment, course materials and the syllabus. (This pdf will usually be updated by the end of the first week of the semester.)

The Online Handbook entry contains up-to-date timetabling information.

If you are currently enrolled in MATH2400, you can log into the My eLearning Vista instance of this course.

MATH2400 has several applications to algebraic coding, so is useful to students of computer science and communication theory.
Starting from the Euclidean algorithm, we discuss continued fractions and congruences, and consider applications to the construction of secret codes in current use in commerce and industry. These techniques are then extended to polynomials, permitting the construction of the finite fields which are widely used in "error correcting codes'' which enable a digitised message to be restored after distortion due to "noise''.