PMATH 360Geometry
- Faculty
- Mathematics
- Last listed
- Spring 2021
No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2021. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.
In the course catalog from Winter 2020 to Spring 2021; Open Data has no classes for it in that time.
An introduction to affine, projective and non-Euclidean forms of geometry. Conic sections in the projective plane. Inversion in circles. Theorems of Desargues, Pappus, and Pascal. [Note: This course will be of interest to all math students.]
Requirements, as last listed
In today’s calendar
- PMATH 321 lists it as an antirequisite
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Discussed on r/uwaterloo
16 posts and comments in 11 threads mention PMATH 360, July 2015 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Spring 2020
Useful PMATH courses for CS major? 4 points, 12 comments
u/lanortha: “PMATH 360 - Geometry At least, if computer graphics interests you.”
Fall 2019
What is the difference between taking pmath 321 and 320 vs just taking pmath 360? 5 points, 2 comments
u/uwgio: “I believe pmath360 is no longer available, and it is replaced by 320+321”
u/pzezson: “… There is no textbook the prof just lectures and writes stuff on the board and he based the course around Professor Stephen New's notes who presumably taught PMath 360 when it was available. …”
Winter 2018
Interesting 300/400 level math courses to take for degree requirement? 1 point, 3 comments
“I enjoyed the stats and calculus courses I have taken thus far the most (i.e. STAT231, M237, AMATH231, AMATH250, STAT371/372). …”
u/lanortha: “Probably not the type of course you are looking for (nor is it related to business)... but PMATH 360 (geometry) was a lot of fun. I took it with Prof. Dickey (retired now, so awhile ago) and we had labs where we did geometry constructions.”
Fall 2016
How difficult is Prof Stephen New? 2 points, 12 comments
“I am considering enrolling in PMATH 441 next term. I know he is known for making notoriously difficult exams, I am wondering if anyone here took MATH 145 or PMATH 352 with him ended up with good …”
u/wouldstillsmash: “I've had Stephen New twice, and my impression is that he gives difficult exams/assignments (sometimes the computations can be insane), but he curves very generously at the end.”
u/wouldstillsmash: “MATH 145 and PMATH 360”
Spring 2016
What marks are you still waiting for? 10 points, 29 comments
u/impermanentguy: “Pmath 352. Not hoping for a good grade, just want to pass tbh.”
u/impermanentguy: “Yeah I took it with snew, I enjoyed the class, but the final was brutal. I also took Pmath 360 with him this term and we got those marks yesterday, so I guess he's probably marking 206 together with 352.”
Are there any "bird" or "for interest" math courses. 0 points, 13 comments
“Need some courses to fill out, and I fuckin hate other faculties, they don't provide me anything useful.”
[deleted]: “PMATH 370 was fairly easy but it's not offered very often. PMATH 360, I've heard, is also fairly easy.”
u/impermanentguy: “Pmath 360 was pretty hard this term, but it's because the prof who used to always teach it retired (I believe) and was replaced by Stephen New, who changed a lot of the material. It was still an interesting class, but man some of the assignments were rough...”
Which 2 courses should I take: CS466, PMATH352/332, STAT444, STAT442, STAT431 0 points, 21 comments
“If I can only choose 2, which should I choose? Or is there some other interesting CO/AMATH/PMATH courses?”
[deleted]: “… I suggest PMATH 360, or 370. Complex analysis is not particularly interesting, I think number theory may be more interesting while still making some use/reference to complex numbers. …”
Is it possible to take 5 math & phys courses and still do well? 2 points, 10 comments
“Taking 5 courses this term, but one of them should probably be dropped, but the thing is that if I drop it I'll have to wait till the next spring to take it, yet the course is very interesting. …”
u/maaaath: “PM 360 and PM332 are easy, CS 371 is easy but annoying, I've heard from others that PHYS 234 isn't hard. Should be doable, but obviously this depends on you and your background. …”
u/ph0tone: “… If you look at the assignment posted at http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/snew/pmath360-2016-S/Assignments/assig1.pdf then maybe you'll find Q4 and Q5 easy, but it took me some time to figure them out. …”
How difficult is PMATH 360? 4 points, 3 comments
u/ph0tone: “If there's anyone here who took PMATH 360, how does it compare with other PMATH courses in terms of difficulty? I think this could be one of the most interesting courses at UW.”
u/wouldstillsmash: “I talked to Professor New about the course this term. He said it's not going to be that difficult. The first assignment isn't too bad, you can judge it yourself here: http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/snew/pmath360-2016-S/Assignments/index.html”
Winter 2016
Is PMATH 360 interesting? 5 points, 2 comments
u/ph0tone: “PMATH 360 is Geometry. Is there anyone who has taken this course? Is this class worth taking, and is it at all non-boring? Are there labs and a lot of sketching? …”
Spring 2015
Are profs allowed to give less than 24 hours notice for a midterm? 14 points, 17 comments
“We received an email this afternoon telling us the midterm would be tomorrow in place of the lecture. I feel this unfair to the entire class, but don't know if there's anything I can actually do …”
u/dana_porter_for_life: “what class is this?”
u/893284: “pmath 360”
u/twinnedcalcite: “Did you miss the lecture when the midterm was set?”
u/names_are_for_losers: “I know someone in PMath 360 and they mentioned needing to study for the midterm that was yesterday on like Friday so...”
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1981–82 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1981–82 to 1994–95 14 calendars
An introduction to affine, projective and non-Euclidean forms of geometry. Conic sections in the projective plane. Inversion in circles..
Will be of interest to all math students.
Prereq: MATH 224B
Offered Spring · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
- 1981–82* PDF p. 399
- 1982–83 PDF p. 360
- 1983–84 PDF p. 375
- 1984–85 PDF p. 375
- 1985–86 PDF p. 386
- 1986–87 PDF p. 390
- 1987–88 PDF p. 404
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- 1989–90 PDF p. 424
- 1990–91 PDF p. 440
- 1991–92 PDF p. 448
- 1992–93 PDF p. 440
- 1993–94 PDF p. 442
- 1994–95 PDF p. 445
* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.