Mathematics (Pure Mathematics)

Bachelor's degree

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

The department offers a number of mathematics courses designed to suit your interests and career aims, with this stream offering a substantial number of third year modules in Pure Mathematics.Our three-year BSc Mathematics (Pure Mathematics) course aims to provide a specialised and in-depth understanding of the subject by focusing on key topics and theories.

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London
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South Kensington Campus, SW7 2AZ

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About this course

Our three-year BSc Mathematics (Pure Mathematics) course aims to provide a specialised and in-depth understanding of the subject by focusing on key topics and theories. You will develop your critical and intellectual abilities while expressing enthusiasm for mathematics and appreciating its value as a discipline in its own right and broad potential for application. All Department of Mathematics students follow a broadly similar programme of study for the first two years, after which you...

Home and EU students 2016 entry: £9,000 per year Please note the tuition fee you pay may increase slightly each year in line with inflation and subject to UK government regulations. If you have applied for a Tuition Fee Loan (see below), your loan entitlement will automatically increase to reflect any changes; you will need to reapply for a loan each year at the new fee rate. Islands and overseas students 2016 entry: £24,000...

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Subjects

  • IT
  • Mathematics
  • GCSE Mathematics
  • Project
  • Geometry
  • Probability
  • Algebra
  • Mechanics

Course programme

Modules shown are for the current academic year, and are subject to change depending on your year of entry.

You will take core modules in years one and two, before selecting a combination of core and optional modules in the second year, and a complete choice of optional modules in the third year.

Most of the components are lecture modules that are examined primarily by written papers in the summer term. Others are examined wholly by submission of projects.

As well as core and optional modules, there are modules required to complete your studies with a Pure Mathematics degree, and you will choose six of these in total, spread over the three years.

Year 1

You can complete a practical module on computation running in the first year, currently using specialist software such as Maple and Matlab, and you will be primarily examined by project.

Towards the end of the first year, you will complete an individual poster project, whose subject can be chosen from a range of topics suggested by a series of inspirational lectures. All posters are exhibited together and you will explain your work to circulating staff and students, obtaining credit for both content and exposition.

All modules, computation and the project must normally be passed for progression to the second year.

Core modules
  • Algebra I
  • Analysis I
  • Foundations of Analysis
  • Geometry and Linear Algebra
  • Individual Poster Project
  • Mathematical Computation
  • Mathematical Methods I
  • Mathematical Methods II
  • Mechanics
  • Probability and Statistics I
Year 2

You will choose one optional module in addition to seven core modules.

After examinations in the third term there is a group project involving both written and oral elements.

All modules and the project must normally be passed for progression to the third year.

Core modules
  • Algebra II
  • Complex Analysis
  • Differential Equations
  • Group Project
  • Introduction to Numerical Analysis
  • Multivariable Calculus
  • Probability and Statistics II
  • Real Analysis
Pure Mathematics required modules
  • Metric Spaces and Topology

(You do not have to choose the above module, but must select six of the 'Pure Mathematics required modules' in total)

Optional modules
  • Non-linear waves
  • Statistical Modelling
Year 3

You will have the choice of modules from the wider department, and modules specifically required for Pure Mathematics students, choosing eight in total.

Pure Mathematics required modules
  • Algebraic Combinatorics
  • Algebraic Number Theory
  • Analytic Number Theory
  • Fourier Analysis and Theory of Distributions
  • Functional Analysis
  • Galois Theory
  • Geometry I: Algebraic Curves
  • Geometry II: Algebraic Topology
  • Geometry of Curves and Surfaces
  • Group Representation Theory
  • Group Theory
  • Measure and Integration
  • Metric Spaces and Topology
  • Number Theory
  • Probability Theory
  • Research Project in Mathematics

You will be able to select a small number of modules from outside of the above list too, from areas such as:

  • Algebra
  • Asymptotic Analysis
  • Computational
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Functional Analysis
  • Galois Theory
  • Geometry of Curves and Surfaces
  • Group Theory
  • Mechanics
  • Methods of Mathematical Physics
  • Number Theory
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Probability Theory
  • Quantum Mechanics
  • Theory of Complex Systems

Mathematics (Pure Mathematics)

Price on request