Computing for Business Applications: Single Honours - BSc 3 Years
Computing systems are at the heart of all successful businesses. The development of good quality software appropriate to the needs of business requires an understanding of both computing and the business environment. By combining the study of these two fields, these degree programmes provide you with the skills needed for a career developing computing systems for business or providing the computer expertise needed by business to buy computing systems.
Increasingly, employers are seeking graduates with high-level computing skills, and the ability to apply them in innovative ways to solve the problems facing their organisations. Opportunities exist in fields as diverse as finance, films and games, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, consumer products, and public services - virtually all areas of business and society. Employers, from large multinational firms such as EA Games , IBM and Microsoft to small local organisations, actively target our students, recognising that Manchester Computer Science graduates are equipped with the skills that enable them to excel in a whole host of positions, including many that are not traditionally associated with computing graduates.
Newton's Method and the Newton Fractal by Anthony Chiu
'Newton's method is a numerical method for root finding. The behaviour of Newton's method is dependent on the initial guess of the root (or 'see''). If the seed is well chosen, it converges quadratically; otherwise its behaviour can be quite unusual and it could converge to a root further away than the nearest one. If we consider each point of the complex plane as an initial guess and colour the points according to the root it converges to, we can obtain beautiful 'Newton fractals', which illustrate the dynamical behaviour of Newton's method.'
'For my project, I have created a system that allows a user to enter any mathematical function to apply Newton's method to. The system then draws the Newton fractal for this function. There are also a few tools that allow mathematicians to explore these fractals. These include viewing the orbits of points in the complex plane and changing the branch for multi-valued functions.'
