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 1251 - Mathematics for Actuarial Studies and Finance 1B
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
Treanungkur Mal (India) - Sparse sets that satisfy the prime number theorem, Counting irreducible polynomials, variable translation in polynomials