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Academic Plans and Requirements

Applied Mathematics

Scientific Computation/Applied 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 237 Calculus 3 for Honours Mathematics or MATH 247 Calculus 3 (Advanced Level)
AMATH 231 Calculus 4
AMATH 242/CM 271/CS 371 Introduction to Computational Mathematics
AMATH 250 Introduction to Differential Equations
AMATH 342/CM 352 Computational Methods for Differential Equations
AMATH 351 Ordinary Differential Equations 2
AMATH 353 Partial Differential Equations 1
CM 375/CS 475 Computational Linear Algebra
CS 230 Introduction to Computers and Computer Systems
CS 234 Data Types and Structures
STAT 331 Applied Linear Models

One of

AMATH/PMATH 331 Applied Real Analysis
AMATH/PMATH 332 Applied Complex Analysis

One of

CO 250/CM 340 Introduction to Optimization
CO 355 Mathematical Optimization

Two of

AMATH 442/CM 452 Computational Methods for Partial Differential Equations
AMATH 444/CM 454 Applications of Computational Differential Equations
AMATH 447/CM 433/CS 487 Introduction to Symbolic Computation
AMATH 453 Partial Differential Equations 2
AMATH 455 Control Theory
AMATH 456 Calculus of Variations
AMATH 463 Fluid Mechanics
AMATH 473/PHYS 454 Quantum Theory 2
CO 453 Network Design
CO 459 Topics in Optimization
CO 463 Convex Optimization and Analysis
CO 466 Continuous Optimization
CM 461/STAT 440 Computational Inference
CM 463/STAT 441 Statistical Learning - Classification
Note: Many of the courses on this list have prerequisites that are not plan requirements.

Two additional math courses.

At least five courses (2.5 units) from one of the following departments:

any one Engineering department
any one Science department
Economics
Note: Engineering courses may not be open to Mathematics students or may not easily fit schedules.

Other course concentrations may be taken with the approval of the Applied Mathematics Undergraduate Officer.


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