Dr Susan Mac Donald
Lecturer in Mathematics
- Room name or number FTG02
Biography
Lecturer in mathematics, author and researcher
Euclid Transmogrified: A National Scandal
Brief video: Euclid Transmogrified: A National Scandal
Published by Logic Press, 2024
Available through Logic Press: direct from Lulu.com (less expensive) and others:
Amazon.co.uk (expensive!)
Website with book information: Synopsis, contents, extracts
Brief video: Euclid Transmogrified: A National Scandal
PressReader: When a2 + b2 <> c2
PressReader: Bogus maths syllabus meant theorem was all Greek to us
Publisher: Logic Press
Qualifications
- PhD (Development of geometry syllabuses)
- MSc (Clinical Science)
- MA (Mathematics)
- PG Dip Statistics for Evidence-Based Medicine
- PG Dip Computer Science
- Degrees in mathematics, music, philosophy and Greek and Roman Civilization
- Level 9 postgraduate qualification in research supervision.
Education
- Maynooth University
- Keele University
- University of Oxford
- University of Chester
Extended Research Projects
- Research (Maynooth University) and authorship (Logic Press): foundationally flawed composite geometry in syllabus development.
- Research and development in programmable computational musicology (University of York): Composers' Desktop Project Csound generation R&D.
Current Lectures
Further Calculus and Probability
- Bachelor Electrical Engineering, Year 2
- Bachelor Electronic Engineering, Year 2
Mathematical Methods with Scilab/MatLab programming
- BSc Computer Science Applied Computing, Year 2
- BSc Computer Forensics and Security, Year 2
Further Statistics with Excel statistical applications
- BSc Software Systems Development, Year 3
- BSc Information Technology, Year 3
Applied Statistics for Scientists with Minitab applications
- BSc Agricultural Science, Year 2
- BSc Food Science and Innovation, Year 2
Mathematics for Problem Solving
- BSc Creative Computing, Year 1
Applied Mathematics for Scientists
BSc Molecular Biology with Biopharmaceutical Science, Year 2
Previous Lectures
- Music Technology and Composition (BA Music, Years 1, 2, 3 and 4).
- Computational Musicology (BA Music, Years 2, 3 and 4).
- Acoustics BA Music (Year 1).
- Computer Music (Postgraduate Diploma)
- Management Science (BSc Information Technology, Year 2).
Lectures (for course details and past courses see Bibliography)
Euclid Transmogrified: A National Scandal
Brief video: Euclid Transmogrified: A National Scandal
Euclid Transmogrified: A National Scandal tells the extraordinary story of how in the mid twentieth century, in a well-developed European country, a mathematically solid system of geometry was altered to such an extent that more than one million students were taught foundationally flawed geometry over more than a quarter of a century. The almost unbelievable situation came about in Ireland in the wake of early postcolonial developments that gave rise to an impressionable and unqualified civil service in a position of power over a nation’s educational development. This is a multifaceted tale of a perfect storm within mathematics development in Ireland whose result was so destructive that its ramifications continue to be felt into the twenty-first century, forty years after a report of a Royal Irish Academy commission of professors of mathematics described the matter as a national scandal.
Website with book information: Synopsis, contents, extracts
Brief video: Euclid Transmogrified: A National Scandal
PressReader: When a2 + b2 <> c2
PressReader: Bogus maths syllabus meant theorem was all Greek to us
Publisher: Logic Press
Available through Logic Press: direct from Lulu.com (less expensive)
and from Amazon.co.uk (expensive!).