Final Year Projects

External Links Regarding Projects

Sites with possible ideas for a topic

The AMS Feature Column Archive
MAA Online Colums:
http://www.maa.org/columns/index.html
http://www.maa.org/pubs/monthly.html
http://www.maa.org/pubs/mathmag.html
http://www.maa.org/pubs/cmj.html
Click on any month in the above sites to get abstracts of interesting articles in these Mathematical Association of America publications. NUI, Galway has access to the full text of the articles through JSTOR.

Plus Magazine
SIAM News Archives
Mathworld
The MacTutor History Archive

Here are categorized projects by area/topic, and clicking on any one of them will open many nice problems in that area.
Some of the projects at http://www.math.sunysb.edu/%7Etony/und_res_projects.html might be adapted to a high enough standard of level.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/WhosCounting/ gives some ideas for probability and stats projects. Incidentally, in that site, the article on "the 9-11 lottery coincidence" is related to a large area of study called 'coincidences'.
http://mathforum.org/isaac/mathhist.html contains some well-known problems suitable for a student interested in, e.g., the history of mathematics.
19 project topics from another academic

Below is a small sample of sites for financial projects.
http://fic.wharton.upenn.edu/fic/papers/98/9823.pdf
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pgreenfinch/behavioral-finance.htm
http://finance.wharton.upenn.edu/~allenf/download/Vita/thedesign.pdf
http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=psychology+%22financial+markets%22+pdf&meta=
http://william-king.www.drexel.edu/top/eco/game/game.html

And here are some more (recent) financial related webpages:
http://www.rfe.org/
http://www.jstor.org/
http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/webecg.html
http://www.nber.org/
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/DisplayAbstractSearch.cfm
http://www.economist.com/

Via the library - Web of Science, Elsevier/EconBase, Business Source Premier

Tips on writing the mathematics in your project

erickson.sites.truman.edu/files/2012/04/guide1.pdf
tex.loria.fr/typographie/mathwriting.pdf (first eight pages)
The next one also contains help on preparing a presentation.
N. Higham, Handbook of writing for the mathematical sciences; this link should work after you signed in on the library web page.)

Typesetting your project

It is highly recommended to use LaTeX for typesetting your project report. TeXworks is probaly the easiest to install full-blown LaTeX system together with graphical frontend. You can download it at http://www.tug.org/texworks/ for Windows and Mac.

A tutorial on LaTeX appears on many sites; here are two:
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/LaTeXPrimer/
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/info/misc/latex-tutorial/latex-home.html

If you use Microsoft Word or the word processor in OpenOffice, a brief tutorial on using the Equation editor for typing mathematics appears here, for example:
http://www.thiel.edu/mathproject/MSWrdEqWr/EquEdTut.pdf