Acknowledgements
This book was made possible through the generous support of the Leeds Libraries Open Books Programme, whose funding enabled the creation of a freely accessible resource for students of mathematics worldwide. We also wish to thank the University of Leeds and Southwest Jiaotong University for their wider institutional support.
We are especially grateful to the colleagues working in Open Education for their encouragement, support and expertise in open educational practice, in particular, Kirstine McDermid, Professor Chrissi Nerantzi, and Professor Antonio Martínez-Arboleda, whose guidance shaped the direction of this project.
The content of this book draws on a module originally designed by Professor Rainer Hollerbach, whose scholarly work provided the mathematical foundation on which this resource is built.
Sincere thanks go to our peer reviewers, Professor Alison Voice and Dr Michelle Evans, whose careful reading and critical insight greatly strengthened the quality of this book. We are additionally grateful to Professor Kevin Houston and Professor Rainer Hollerbach for their valuable peer feedback during the writing process.
The video content in the fifth section of each chapter was brought to life by students from the School of Performance and Cultural Industries. We extend our sincere thanks to Professor George Rodosthenous, who directed the videos with great expertise and generosity, and to Patrick Bannon for his outstanding cinematography and editing. Special thanks go to the colleagues who generously gave their time to perform in the videos: Professor Rob Sturman, Professor Alison Voice, Professor Kevin Houston, and Dr Robert Barham.
Grateful thanks also go to the students who performed in the videos: Freya Raybould, Amalie Murray, Jack Middleton, Alexander Robinson, Lola Hardie, Elliot Rigby, Jake Lambe, Joe Hullis, Grace Cansfield, Damilare Ogunmekan, Alaina Hu, and Georgia Bartlett.
The bilingual glossaries were developed with the invaluable assistance of student intern Yue Wu, funded by the Student Impact Internship Scheme at the University of Leeds. The keyword lists that informed the glossaries were developed from scholarship by Alister Drury, Rachel Perkins, and Warren Sheard, available at The Lexis of Maths Lectures.
We are particularly grateful to Dr Graham Murphy for his considerable time and support in developing EAP provision within the School of Mathematics at the University of Leeds, and to Dr Robert Barham and Dr Suzie Beck for their valuable conversations.
The digital infrastructure and embedding of this resource were supported by the University Digital Education team: Alice Clayton, Lucy Hamilton, Samuel Jones, MM Raihan, Oliver Sacker, and Millie Speakman; we thank them for their expertise and patience throughout the process. We are also grateful to Beatrice Wong and Ahmed Chyad, student ambassadors for Digital Education, for their thorough reviewing and proofreading.
The interactive H5P activities included in this book were adapted from work by Joseph Rézeau, and we thank him for making his materials available for adaptation.
Finally, the cover art for this book was created by Ody Frank, whose creative vision gave this resource a distinctive identity. His work can be found here.
