Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) - Honours Applied Mathematics(63 Credits)
Offered by:Mathematics and Statistics
Degree:Bachelor of Science
Program Requirement:
Applied Mathematics is a very broad field and students are encouraged to choose a coherent program of complementary courses. Most students specialize in "continuous" or "discrete" applied mathematics, but there are many sensible combinations of courses, and the following informal guidelines should be discussed with the student's adviser. Also, aside from seeking to develop a sound basis in Applied Mathematics, one of the objectives of the program is to kindle the students' interest in possible areas of application. To develop an appreciation of the diversity of Applied Mathematics, students are advised to develop some depth (e.g., by completing a minor) in a field related to Applied Mathematics such as Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Economics, Engineering, Management, Physics, Physiology, and Psychology.
Students may complete this program with a minimum of 60 credits or a maximum of 63 credits depending if they are exempt from MATH 222.
Program Prerequisites
The minimum requirement for entry into the Honours program is that the student has completed with high standing the following courses below or their equivalents:
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MATH 133
Linear Algebra and Geometry
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Systems of linear equations, matrices, inverses, determinants; geometric vectors in three dimensions, dot product, cross product, lines and planes; introduction to vector spaces, linear dependence and independence, bases. Linear transformations. Eigenvalues and diagonalization.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- 3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial
- Prerequisite: a course in functions
- Restriction A: Not open to students who have taken MATH 221 or CEGEP objective 00UQ or equivalent.
- Restriction B: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 123, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Restriction C: Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 134.
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MATH 150
Calculus A
4 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Functions, limits and continuity, differentiation, L'Hospital's rule, applications, Taylor polynomials, parametric curves, functions of several variables.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall
- 3 hours lecture, 2 hours tutorial
- Students with no prior exposure to vector geometry are advised to take MATH 133 concurrently. Intended for students with high school calculus who have not received six advanced placement credits
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CEGEP objective 00UN or equivalent
- Restriction Note B: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics
- MATH 150 and MATH 151 cover the material of MATH 139, MATH 140, MATH 141, MATH 222
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MATH 151
Calculus B
4 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Integration, methods and applications, infinite sequences and series, power series, arc length and curvature, multiple integration.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Winter
- 3 hours lecture; 2 hours tutorial
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
- Prerequisite: MATH 150
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CEGEP objective 00UP or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MATH 152
In particular, MATH 150/151 and MATH 140/222 are considered equivalent.
Students who have not completed an equivalent of MATH 222 on entering the program must consult an academic adviser and take MATH 222 as a required course in the first semester, increasing the total number of program credits from 60 to 63. Students who have successfully completed MATH 150/151 are not required to take MATH 222.
Note: COMP 202—or an equivalent introduction to computer programming course—is a program prerequisite. U0 students may take COMP 202 as a Freshman Science course; new U1 students should take it as an elective in their first semester.
Students who transfer to Honours in Applied Mathematics from other programs will have credits for previous courses assigned, as appropriate, by the Department.
To be awarded the Honours degree, the student must have, at time of graduation, a CGPA of at least 3.00 in the required and complementary Mathematics courses of the program, as well as an overall CGPA of at least 3.00.
Required Courses
(39-42 credits)
* Students with limited programming experience should take COMP 202 or COMP 204 or COMP 208 or equivalent before COMP 250.
** Students select either MATH 251 or MATH 247, but not both.
*** Students who have successfully completed MATH 150/151 or an equivalent of MATH 222 on entering the program are not required to take MATH 222.
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COMP 250
Intro to Computer Science
3 Credits*
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Computer Science (Sci): Mathematical tools (binary numbers, induction, recurrence relations, asymptotic complexity, establishing correctness of programs), Data structures (arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, trees, binary trees, binary search trees, heaps, hash tables), Recursive and non-recursive algorithms (searching and sorting, tree and graph traversal). Abstract data types, inheritance. Selected topics.
Offered by: Computer Science
- 3 hours
- Prerequisites: Familiarity with a high level programming language and CEGEP level Math.
- Students with limited programming experience should take COMP 202 or equivalent before COMP 250. See COMP 202 Course Description for a list of topics.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Giulia Alberini
- Giulia Alberini
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COMP 252
Honours Algorithms&Data Struct
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Computer Science (Sci): The design and analysis of data structures and algorithms. The description of various computational problems and the algorithms that can be used to solve them, along with their associated data structures. Proving the correctness of algorithms and determining their computational complexity.
Offered by: Computer Science
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: COMP 250 and either MATH 235 or MATH 240
- Restrictions: (1) Open only to students in Honours programs. (2) Students cannot receive credit for both COMP 251 and COMP 252.
- COMP 252 uses basic combinatorial counting methods that are covered in MATH 240 but not in MATH 235. Students who are unfamiliar with these methods should speak with the instructor for guidance.
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MATH 222
Calculus 3
3 Credits***
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Taylor series, Taylor's theorem in one and several variables. Review of vector geometry. Partial differentiation, directional derivative. Extreme of functions of 2 or 3 variables. Parametric curves and arc length. Polar and spherical coordinates. Multiple integrals.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Terms
- Instructors
- Patrick Allen, Marcin Sabok
- Sidney Trudeau
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MATH 235
Algebra 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Sets, functions and relations. Methods of proof. Complex numbers. Divisibility theory for integers and modular arithmetic. Divisibility theory for polynomials. Rings, ideals and quotient rings. Fields and construction of fields from polynomial rings. Groups, subgroups and cosets; group actions on sets.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall
- 3 hours lecture; 1 hour tutorial
- Prerequisite: MATH 133 or equivalent
- Terms
- Instructors
- Eyal Z Goren, Jeremy Macdonald
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MATH 247
Honours Applied Linear Algebra
3 Credits**
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Matrix algebra, determinants, systems of linear equations. Abstract vector spaces, inner product spaces, Fourier series. Linear transformations and their matrix representations. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalizable and defective matrices, positive definite and semidefinite matrices. Quadratic and Hermitian forms, generalized eigenvalue problems, simultaneous reduction of quadratic forms. Applications.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Winter
- Prerequisite: MATH 133 or equivalent.
- Restriction: Intended for Honours Physics and Engineering students
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 236, MATH 223 or MATH 251
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MATH 251
Honours Algebra 2
3 Credits**
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Linear equations over a field. Introduction to vector spaces. Linear maps and their matrix representation. Determinants. Canonical forms. Duality. Bilinear and
quadratic forms. Real and complex inner product spaces. Diagonalization of self-adjoint operators.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Winter
- Prerequisites: MATH 235 or permission of the Department
- Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 247
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MATH 255
Honours Analysis 2
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Basic point-set topology, metric spaces: open and closed sets, normed and Banach spaces, Hölder and Minkowski inequalities, sequential compactness, Heine-Borel, Banach Fixed Point theorem. Riemann-(Stieltjes) integral, Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Taylor's theorem. Uniform convergence. Infinite series, convergence tests, power series. Elementary functions.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
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MATH 325
Honours ODE's
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): First and second order equations, linear equations, series solutions, Frobenius method, introduction to numerical methods and to linear systems, Laplace transforms, applications.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall and Winter
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: MATH 222.
- Restriction: Intended for Honours Mathematics, Physics and Engineering programs.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MATH 263 (formerly MATH 261), MATH 315
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MATH 350
Honours Discrete Mathematics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Discrete mathematics. Graph Theory: matching theory, connectivity, planarity, and colouring; graph minors and extremal graph theory. Combinatorics: combinatorial methods, enumerative and algebraic combinatorics, discrete probability.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisites: MATH 235 or MATH 240 and MATH 251 or MATH 223.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 340. Intended for students in mathematics or computer science honours programs.
- Intended for students in mathematics or computer science honours programs.
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MATH 356
Honours Probability
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Sample space, probability axioms, combinatorial probability. Conditional probability, Bayes' Theorem. Distribution theory with special reference to the Binomial, Poisson, and Normal distributions. Expectations, moments, moment generating functions, uni-variate transformations. Random vectors, independence, correlation, multivariate transformations. Conditional distributions, conditional expectation.Modes of stochastic convergence, laws of large numbers, Central Limit Theorem.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall
- Prerequisite(s): MATH 243 or MATH 255, and MATH 222 or permission of the Department.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 323
- Terms
- Instructors
- Louigi Dana Addario-Berry
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MATH 357
Honours Statistics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Data analysis. Estimation and hypothesis testing. Power of tests. Likelihood ratio criterion. The chi-squared goodness of fit test. Introduction to regression analysis and analysis of variance.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Winter
- Prerequisite: MATH 356 or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 324
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MATH 358
Honours Advanced Calculus
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Point-set topology in Euclidean space; continuity and differentiability of functions in several variables. Implicit and inverse function theorems. Vector fields, divergent and curl operations. Rigorous treatment of multiple integrals: volume and surface area; and Fubini’s theorem. Line and surface integrals, conservative vector fields. Green's theorem, Stokes’ theorem and the divergence theorem.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
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MATH 376
Honours Nonlinear Dynamics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): This course consists of the lectures of MATH 326, but will be assessed at the honours level.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall
- Prerequisites: MATH 222, MATH 223
- Restrictions: Intended primarily for Honours students. Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 326.
- Note: Additionally, a special project or projects may be assigned.
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MATH 470
Honours Research Project
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): The project will contain a significant research component that requires substantial independent work consisting of a written report and oral examination or presentation.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall and Winter and Summer
- Requires Departmental Approval
- Students are advised to start contacting potential project supervisors early during their U2 year.
- Prerequisite: appropriate honours courses with approval of the project supervisor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
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MATH 475
Honours PDE's
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): First order partial differential equations, geometric theory, classification of second order linear equations, Sturm-Liouville problems, orthogonal functions and Fourier series, eigenfunction expansions, separation of variables for heat, wave and Laplace equations, Green's function methods, uniqueness theorems.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
Complementary Courses (21 credits)
3 credits selected from:
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MATH 242
Analysis 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): A rigorous presentation of sequences and of real numbers and basic properties of continuous and differentiable functions on the real line.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall
- Prerequisite: MATH 141
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who are taking or who have taken MATH 254.
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MATH 254
Honours Analysis 1
3 Credits+
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Properties of R. Cauchy and monotone sequences, Bolzano- Weierstrass theorem. Limits, limsup, liminf of functions. Pointwise, uniform continuity: Intermediate Value theorem. Inverse and monotone functions. Differentiation: Mean Value theorem, L'Hospital's rule, Taylor's Theorem.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisite(s): MATH 141
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who are taking or who have taken MATH 242.
+ It is strongly recommended that students take MATH 254.
Advising Notes:
Students interested in continuous applied mathematics are urged to choose these as part of their Complementary Courses: MATH 454, MATH 455 and MATH 478, and are advised to choose additional courses from MATH 387, MATH 397, MATH 555, MATH 574, MATH 578, MATH 579, MATH 580, MATH 581.
Students interested in discrete applied mathematics are advised to choose from these as part of their Complementary Courses: COMP 362, COMP 490, MATH 456, MATH 457, MATH 517, MATH 547, MATH 550, MATH 552.
3 credits selected from:
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MATH 249
Honours Complex Variables
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Functions of a complex variable; Cauchy-Riemann equations; Cauchy's theorem and consequences. Taylor and Laurent expansions. Residue calculus; evaluation of real integrals; integral representation of special functions; the complex inversion integral. Conformal mapping; Schwarz-Christoffel transformation; Poisson's integral formulas; applications.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Winter
- Prerequisite(s): MATH 248 or MATH 358 or equivalent.
- Restriction: Intended for Honours Physics and Engineering students
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 316
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MATH 466
Honours Complex Analysis
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Functions of a complex variable, Cauchy-Riemann equations, Cauchy's theorem and its consequences. Uniform convergence on compacta. Taylor and Laurent series, open mapping theorem, Rouché's theorem and the argument principle. Calculus of residues. Fractional linear transformations and conformal mappings.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
at least 3 credits selected from:
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MATH 387
Honours Numerical Analysis
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Error analysis. Numerical solutions of equations by iteration. Interpolation. Numerical differentiation and integration. Introduction to numerical solutions of differential equations.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Taught in alternate years
- Winter (even years)
- Prerequisites: MATH 325 or MATH 315, COMP 202 or permission of instructor.
- Corequisites: MATH 255 or MATH 243.
- Restriction: Intended primarily for Honours students.
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MATH 397
Hons Matrix Numerical Analysis
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): The course consists of the lectures of MATH 327 plus additional work involving theoretical assignments and/or a project. The final examination for this course may be different from that of MATH 327.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
0-6 credits from the following courses for which no Honours equivalent exists.
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MATH 204
Principles of Statistics 2
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): The concept of degrees of freedom and the analysis of variability. Planning of experiments. Experimental designs. Polynomial and multiple regressions. Statistical computer packages (no previous computing experience is needed). General statistical procedures requiring few assumptions about the probability model.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Winter
- Prerequisite: MATH 203 or equivalent. No calculus prerequisites
- Restriction: This course is intended for students in all disciplines. For extensive course restrictions covering statistics courses see Section 3.6.1 of the Arts and of the Science sections of the calendar regarding course overlaps.
- You may not be able to receive credit for this course and other statistic courses. Be sure to check the Course Overlap section under Faculty Degree Requirements in the Arts or Science section of the Calendar.
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MATH 208
Intro to Statistical Computing
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Basic data management. Data visualization. Exploratory data analysis and descriptive statistics. Writing functions. Simulation and parallel computing. Communication data and documenting code for reproducible research.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
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MATH 308
Fundls of Statistical Learning
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Theory and application of various techniques for the exploration and analysis of multivariate data: principal component analysis, correspondence analysis, and other visualization and dimensionality reduction techniques; supervised and unsupervised learning; linear discriminant analysis, and clustering techniques. Data applications using appropriate software.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
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MATH 329
Theory of Interest
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Simple and compound interest, annuities certain, amortization schedules, bonds, depreciation.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
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MATH 338
History & Philosophy of Math
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek, Indian and Arab contributions to mathematics are studied together with some modern developments they give rise to, for example, the problem of trisecting the angle. European mathematics from the Renaissance to the 18th century is discussed, culminating in the discovery of the infinitesimal and integral calculus by Newton and Leibnitz. Demonstration of how mathematics was done in past centuries, and involves the practice of mathematics, including detailed calculations, arguments based on geometric reasoning, and proofs.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
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MATH 430
Mathematical Finance
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Introduction to concepts of price and hedge derivative securities. The following concepts will be studied in both concrete and continuous time: filtrations, martingales, the change of measure technique, hedging, pricing, absence of arbitrage opportunities and the Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
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MATH 478
Comput. Meth. in Applied Math
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Solution to initial value problems: Linear, Nonlinear Finite Difference Methods: accuracy and stability, Lax equivalence theorem, CFL and von Neumann conditions,
Fourier analysis: diffusion, dissipation, dispersion, and spectral methods. Solution of large sparse linear systems: iterative methods, preconditioning, incomplete
LU, multigrid, Krylov subspaces, conjugate gradient method. Applications to, e.g., weighted least squares, duality, constrained minimization, calculus of variation,
inverse problems, regularization, level set methods, Navier-Stokes equations
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
and the remainder of credits selected from:
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COMP 362
Honours Algorithm Design
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Computer Science (Sci): Basic algorithmic techniques, their applications and limitations. Problem complexity, how to deal with problems for which no efficient solutions are known.
Offered by: Computer Science
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: COMP 252
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking COMP 360.
- Note: COMP 362 can be used instead of COMP 360 to satisfy prerequisites.
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MATH 352
Problem Seminar
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Seminar in Mathematical Problem Solving. The problems considered will be of the type that occur in the Putnam competition and in other similar mathematical competitions.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisite: Enrolment in a math related program or permission of the instructor. Requires departmental approval.
- Prerequisite: Enrolment in a math related program or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
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MATH 377
Honours Number Theory
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): This course consists of the lectures of MATH 346, but will be assessed at the honours level.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Winter
- Prerequisite: Enrolment in Mathematics Honours program or consent of instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 346.
- Note: Additionally, a special project or projects may be assigned.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
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MATH 398
Honours Euclidean Geometry
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Honours level: points and lines in a triangle. Quadrilaterals. Angles in a circle. Circumscribed and inscribed circles. Congruent and similar triangles. Area.
Power of a point with respect to a circle. Ceva’s theorem. Isometries. Homothety. Inversion.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisite: MATH 133 or equivalent or permission of instructor.
- Restrictions: Not open to students taking or have take MATH 348.
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MATH 454
Honours Analysis 3
3 Credits++
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Review of point-set topology: topological space, dense sets, completeness, compactness, connectedness and path-connectedness, separability. Arzela-Ascoli, Stone-Weierstrass, Baire category theorems. Measure theory: sigma algebras, Lebesgue measure and integration, L^1 functions. Fatou's lemma, monotone and dominated convergence theorem. Egorov, Lusin's theorems. Fubini-Tonelli theorem.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisite: MATH 255 or equivalent.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MATH 354.
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MATH 455
Honours Analysis 4
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Continuation of measure theory. Functional analysis: L^p spaces, linear functionals and dual spaces, Hahn-Banach theorem, Riesz representation theorem. Hilbert spaces, weak convergence. Spectral theory of compact operator. Introduction to Fourier analysis, Fourier transforms.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisite: MATH 454 or equivalent.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken MATH 355.
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MATH 456
Honours Algebra 3
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Introduction to monoids, groups, permutation groups; the isomorphism theorems for groups; the theorems of Cayley, Lagrange and Sylow; structure of groups of low order. Introduction to ring theory; integral domains, fields, quotient field of an integral domain; polynomial rings; unique factorization domains.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
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MATH 457
Honours Algebra 4
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Introduction to modules and algebras; finitely generated modules over a principal ideal domain. Field extensions; finite fields; Galois groups; the fundamental theorem of Galois theory; application to the classical problem of solvability by radicals.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisite: MATH 456 or equivalent
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken MATH 371.
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MATH 458
Honours Differential Geometry
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): In addition to the topics of MATH 320, topics in the global theory of plane and space curves, and in the global theory of surfaces are presented. These include: total curvature and the Fary-Milnor theorem on knotted curves, abstract surfaces as 2-d manifolds, the Euler characteristic, the Gauss-Bonnet theorem for surfaces.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
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MATH 462
Hon. Math for Machine Learning
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Foundations of optimization and convex analysis, stochastic gradient descent. Divergences, loss functions, empirical loss minimization and parameter estimation. Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. Multiple linear regression in the context of machine learning. Classification with support vector machines. Dimensionality reduction, Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma. Concentration of measure and learning bounds.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
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MATH 480
Honours Independent Study
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Reading projects permitting independent study under the guidance of a staff member specializing in a subject where no appropriate course is available. Arrangements must be made with an instructor and the Chair before registration.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall and Winter and Summer
- Please see regulations concerning Project Courses under Faculty Degree Requirements
- Requires approval by the chair before registration
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
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MATH 488
Honours Set Theory
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Axioms of set theory, ordinal and cardinal arithmetic, consequences of the axiom of choice, models of set theory, constructible sets and the continuum hypothesis, introduction to independence proofs.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall
- Prerequisites: MATH 251 or MATH 255 or permission of instructor
- Restrictions :Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 590.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
++ Not open to students who have taken MATH 354.
All MATH 500-level courses.
Other courses with the permission of the Department.