printer friendly pageMATH 145: Algebraic Geometry
Hilbert's nullstellensatz, complex affine and projective curves, Bezout's theorem, the degree/genus formula, blow-up, Riemann-Roch theorem. Prerequisites: 120, and 121 or knowledge of fraction fields. Recommended: familiarity with surfaces equivalent to 143, 146, 147, or 148.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Math
Instructors:
Vakil, R. (PI)
MATH 146: Analysis on Manifolds
Differentiable manifolds, tangent space, submanifolds, implicit function theorem, differential forms, vector and tensor fields. Frobenius' theorem, DeRham theory. Prerequisite: 52 or 52H.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Math
Instructors:
Ionel, E. (PI)
MATH 147: Differential Topology
Smooth manifolds, transversality, Sards' theorem, embeddings, degree of a map, Borsuk-Ulam theorem, Hopf degree theorem, Jordan curve theorem. Prerequisite: 115 or 171.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Math
MATH 148: Algebraic Topology
Fundamental group, covering spaces, Euler characteristic, homology, classification of surfaces, knots. Prerequisite: 109 or 120.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Math
Instructors:
Berwick-Evans, D. (PI)
MATH 151: Introduction to Probability Theory
Counting; axioms of probability; conditioning and independence; expectation and variance; discrete and continuous random variables and distributions; joint distributions and dependence; central limit theorem and laws of large numbers. Prerequisite: 52 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Math
Instructors:
Dembo, A. (PI)
MATH 152: Elementary Theory of Numbers
Euclid's algorithm, fundamental theorems on divisibility; prime numbers; congruence of numbers; theorems of Fermat, Euler, Wilson; congruences of first and higher degrees; quadratic residues; introduction to the theory of binary quadratic forms; quadratic reciprocity; partitions.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Math
Instructors:
Soundararajan, K. (PI)
MATH 154: Algebraic Number Theory
Properties of number fields and Dedekind domains, quadratic and cyclotomic fields, applications to some classical Diophantine equations; introduction to elliptic curves. Prerequisites: 120 and 121, especially modules over principal ideal domains and Galois theory of finite fields.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Math
Instructors:
Conrad, B. (PI)
MATH 155: Analytic Number Theory
Topics in analytic number theory such as the distribution of prime numbers, the prime number theorem, twin primes and Goldbach's conjecture, the theory of quadratic forms, Dirichlet's class number formula, Dirichlet's theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions, and the fifteen theorem. Prerequisite: 152, or familiarity with the Euclidean algorithm, congruences, residue classes and reduced residue classes, primitive roots, and quadratic reciprocity.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Math
MATH 161: Set Theory
Informal and axiomatic set theory: sets, relations, functions, and set-theoretical operations. The Zermelo-Fraenkel axiom system and the special role of the axiom of choice and its various equivalents. Well-orderings and ordinal numbers; transfinite induction and transfinite recursion. Equinumerosity and cardinal numbers; Cantor's Alephs and cardinal arithmetic. Open problems in set theory. Prerequisite: students should be comfortable doing proofs.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Math
Instructors:
Sommer, R. (PI)
MATH 162: Philosophy of Mathematics (PHIL 162, PHIL 262)
(Graduate students register for
PHIL 262.) General survey of the philosophy of mathematics, focusing on epistemological issues. Includes survey of some basic concepts (proof, axiom, definition, number, set); mind-bending theorems about the limits of our current mathematical knowledge, such as Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems, and the independence of the continuum hypothesis from the current axioms of set theory; major philosophical accounts of mathematics: Logicism, Intuitionism, Hilbert's program, Quine's empiricism, Field's program, Structuralism; concluding with a discussion of Eugene Wigner's `The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences'. Students won't be expected to prove theorems or complete mathematical exercises. However, includes some material of a technical nature. Prerequisite: PHIL150 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Math
Instructors:
Donaldson, T. (PI)
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