Mark Muldoon Reader, Department of Mathematics Teaching: Schedule, Autumn 2025 The links below lead to online materials for units where I am teaching this term Mathematics 1M1 (MATH19661) Scientific Computing (MATH4/69111: MMath & MSc) 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

Consider this report from the Associated Press:

CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) Apple Inc. (AAPL) on Tuesday reported fiscal first-quarter net income of $18.02 billion.

The Cupertino, California-based company said it had profit of $3.06 per share.

The results surpassed Wall Street expectations … The maker of iPhones, iPads and other products posted revenue of $74.6 billion in the period, also exceeding Street forecasts. Analysts expected $67.38 billion.

For the current quarter ending in March, Apple said it expects revenue in the range of $52 billion to $55 billion. Analysts surveyed by Zacks had expected revenue of $53.65 billion.

Apple shares have declined 1 per cent since the beginning of the year, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index has declined slightly more than 1 per cent. In the final minutes of trading on Tuesday, shares hit $109.14, an increase of 39 per cent in the last 12 months.

We'll be returning to the content of that news story in a moment. For now, the fact to concentrate on is that it wasn't written by a human being. This has been a joke or riff for so long — such and such “reads like it was written by a computer” — that it's difficult to get one's head around the fact that computer-generated news has become a reality. A company called Automated Insights owns the software which wrote that AP story.

From a 2013 book review, The robots are coming, by John Lanchester.

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Autumn 2025

Weekday	9:00 → 10:00	10:00 → 11:00	11:00 → 12:00	12:00 → 1:00		1:00 → 2:00	2:00 → 3:00		3:00 → 4:00	4:00 → 5:00
Monday					Office Hours Available to meet students and advisees Alan Turing Building, Room 2.130					Maths 1M1 Lecture Nancy Rothwell: Theatre A
Tuesday						1M1 Tutorial Room TBC	1M1 Tutorial Room TBC
Wednesday			PDEs & Vector Calculus Tutorial Simon: 3.44B (Weeks 2, 4, 7, 9 & 11)			SQUIDS Seminar
Thursday	Maths 1M1 Lecture Nancy Rothwell: Theatre A	Supervision Intro to Vector Calculus (Weeks 1, 3, 5, 8, 10 & 12) Nancy Rothwell: 1A.028 Probability 1 (Weeks 2, 4, 7, 9 & 11) Nancy Rothwell: 1A.026		Gilman Group Lab Meeting		PDEs & Vector Calculus Tutorial James Chadwick: 3.008 (Weeks 2, 4, 7, 9 & 11)
Friday							Scientific Computing Lab Alan Turing: G.105