Mark Muldoon Reader, Department of Mathematics Teaching: Schedule, Winter/Spring 2026 The links below lead to online materials for units for which I am doing tutorials this term Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations (MATH11412) Room: Room 2.130, Alan Turing Building (number 46 on this campus map) Phone: (0161) 306 3646 (44 161 306 3646   from overseas) Email: M.Muldoon@Manchester.ac.uk Pronouns: he/him/his

Life for both sexes — and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement — is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perhaps, creatures of illusion as we are, it calls for confidence in oneself. Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to one self. By feeling that one has some innate superiority — it may be wealth, or rank, a straight nose, or the portrait of a grandfather by Romney — for there is no end to the pathetic devices of the human imagination — over other people.

From Chapter 2 of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own.

Winter/Spring 2026