The math prep course is recommended for all first-year students taking up studies of the above mentioned courses in the winter term 2025/2026. This prep course offers the opportunity to brush up your knowledge of math basics important for your studies and prepares you for the Mathematics I lecture in the winter term 2025/2026. In addition, this course allows you to meet other students also beginning their studies, to find your way around campus, and to make initial contacts.
The following topics are covered in the course:
- Elementary arithmetic operations, such as solving equations and manipulating expressions involving absolute values, fractions, exponents, roots, and logarithms
- Propositional logic
- Set theory
- Sigma and Pi notation for sums and products
- Proof methods
- Functions
The prep course will begin on Wednesday, 01.10.2025 and end on Thursday, 09.10.2025. The courses take place all day from 9 am to 5 pm. On 01.10.25 the course begins with an introductory event at 10:15 am.
Please register by Saturday, 27.09.2025 at the latest using the form below. You will then get further information on the prep course by e-mail until 29.09.2025 (group assignment, meeting place, times, etc.).
Please don't hesitate to send your questions to Alfredo Cantarella via e-mail.
