Computer Science and Mathematics: Single Honours - BSc 3 Years
Choosing the Computer Science and Mathematics programme allows you to combine the study of these two disciplines, each occupying half of your studies, and explores the reliance of each on the other.
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.
Conway's Game of Life by Dan Garry
'Conway's Game of Life, or simply Life, was invented by the mathematician John Conway in 1970 and is a celebrated example of a cellular automaton; a structure that consists of an n-dimensional grid containing a potentially infinite number of cells, with each cell being in one of a finite number of states. Life, as defined by Conway, is a two-dimensional cellular automaton with a grid of infinite size, which has only two states for the cells: 'dead' and 'alive'. Life's infinite grid presents a problem for modelling the automation using computers, as computer memory, although increasingly large, is only finite. This project focuses on the development of a program that can model Life on a personal computer. Once developed, this tool will be used as an aid to research a variation of Life where the playing field is modelled as a torus of finite size, and the final goal of this project is to derive and explain some properties of this variation.'
