MMath Mathematics

UCAS Code: G103

If you hope to become a professional mathematician – in industry, the academic world or elsewhere – the MMath degree is for you. The programme includes a range of topics underlying the main areas of modern work in the subject together with a wide selection of specialist courses studied in depth. The content is the same as that of BSc Mathematics for the first two years. Thereafter the programme becomes more specialised, with the opportunity to concentrate on pure or applied mathematics if you want to, and with a range of options available in the third and fourth years.

Transferable skills

The University's Strategy for Teaching and Learning has identified a number of generic transferable skills which all students are expected to have developed by the end of their degree programme. By the end of the programme students are expected to have gained experience and show competence in the following transferable skills: IT (word-processing, using standard and mathematics software), scientific writing, oral presentation, team-working, problem-solving, use of library resources, time-management, and career management and planning.

Modules

The MMath Mathematics core modules are:

Year 1

Analysis I
Calculus Methods
Vectors and Matrices
Ordinary Differential Equations I
Algebra I
Linear Algebra
Probability

Year 2

Analysis II
Communicating Mathematics
Ordinary Differential Equations II
Partial Differential Equations I
Algebra II
Dynamics
Vector Calculus
Numerical Methods
Analysis in Several Variables

Year 3

Complex Analysis I
Complex Analysis II
Part 3 Project

Year 4

Part 4 Project

 

Optional modules in Years 3 and 4 can be chosen from a varied list of pure and applied mathematics topics. More information on the modules we offer can be obtained from the Mathematics and Statistics modules page.

Further information

A full programme specification can be obtained via the main Programme specifications for undergraduate and MMath programmes page, which includes further details of the programme structure.

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Programmes or modules may be altered or withdrawn without notice and assessment arrangements may be changed.