Final Year Projects

External Links Regarding Projects

The AMS Feature Column Archive
MAA Online Colums:
http://www.maa.org/news/columns.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.

Here are categorized projects by area/topic, and clicking on any one of them will open many nice problems in that area.
http://www.maths.lth.se/matstat/education/exjobb/master.pdf ‐ a large selection of statistics, probability, financial mathematics etc.
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

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

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