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Departmental Honours Academic Plans: Requirements

Pure Mathematics

Mathematical Finance

The Mathematical Finance plan is offered jointly by the Departments of Statistics and Actuarial Science and of Pure Mathematics.

In conjunction with the common degree requirements in Table I in "Degree Requirements," this plan requires at least 26 math courses. These overall requirements must include the Faculty core courses outlined in Table II in "Degree Requirements" and the following courses:

All of

MATH 247 Calculus 3 (Advanced Level) or MATH 237 Calculus 3 for Honours Mathematics*
AFM 101 Introduction to Financial Accounting
AFM 102 Introduction to Managerial Accounting
AFM 131/ARBUS 101 Introduction to Business in North America
ACTSC 231 Mathematics of Finance
ACTSC 371 Corporate Finance 1
ACTSC 372 Corporate Finance 2
ACTSC 445 Asset-Liability Management
ACTSC/STAT 446 Mathematical Models in Finance
AMATH 250 Introduction to Differential Equations
AMATH 341/CM 271/CS 371 Introduction to Computational Mathematics
AMATH 431/PMATH 451 Measure and Integration
ECON 101 Introduction to Microeconomics
ECON 102 Introduction to Macroeconomics
ECON 201 Microeconomic Theory 1
PMATH 351 Real Analysis
PMATH 354 Measure Theory and Fourier Analysis
STAT 330 Mathematical Statistics
STAT 331 Applied Linear Models
STAT 333 Applied Probability
STAT 443 Forecasting
* MATH 237 requires permission of department

One of

AMATH 351 Ordinary Differential Equations 2
CO 350 Linear Optimization
CO 352/CM 340 Computational Optimization
PMATH 352 Complex Analysis


One of

AMATH 353 Partial Differential Equations 1
AMATH 432/PMATH 453 Functional Analysis
CO 372 Portfolio Optimization Models
CM/CS 476 Numeric Computation for Financial Modeling

Note
MATH 147 and 148 provide highly desirable background for students in the Mathematical Finance plan.


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