Teaching

Teaching

Randell's videos are number 1 on a Youtube search of the following:

RSA code

Euler's theorem

Primitive elements

Finite fields

Modular inverse

Formulas for pi

Chinese remainder theorem

Small O notation

(as at 15 June 2022 through an anonymous proxy)

Interesting and inspiring talks on mathematical stories:

Sydney Science Festival "Awesome talk by Dr Randell Heyman about the maths behind internet encrytion" - Buzz Usborne

Pint of Science talk on JPEG

Science at the Local - Blue Mountains.

Inspiring Science talk on CT Scans

Talented HSC Student Day  (Macquarie, UNSW, Sydney, UTS) - "Feedback from Teachers and Students who attended the day is excellent with first class comments regarding your lecture."

Chatswood High School - "...extremely entertaining..."

Frensham School (via Skype) - "The girls were captivated by the notions presented to them."

Emmanuel College- "...a light hearted mathematical talk dipping into modular arithmetic, prime numbers..."

Girls do the Maths (UNSW) - `favourite with attendants’, `easily the highlight of the girl’s day’, `voted #1 by an overwhelming majority’ 

Mathsoc (UNSW) - "It was like ...magic!"

Some Funny/Positive Student Comments

Lecturer (UNSW)

Actl 2001 - Financial Mathematics

Actl 5102 - Financial Mathematics for Actuaries


Tutor (UNSW)

Math 1131 - Mathematics 1A 

Math 1231 - Mathematics 1B 

Math 1141 - Higher Mathematics 1A

Math 1151 - Mathematics for Actuarial Studies and Finance 1A

Math 1081 - Discrete Mathematics

Math 2400 - Finite Mathematics

Math 2069 - Mathematics 2A (Complex Analysis)

Math 2501 - Linear Algebra

Math 2521 - Complex Analysis


Student Supervision

Aditya Thomas (India) - Summer internship, Analytic number theory and the prime number theorem, Irrationality and Transcendence