Courses given by the Department of Mathematics
Course Code | Course Name | METU Credit | Contact (h/w) | Lab (h/w) | ECTS |
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MATH111 | FUNDAMENTALS OF MATHEMATICS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 4.5 |
Course ContentSymbolic logic. Set theory. Cartesian product. Relations. Functions. Injective, surjective and bijective functions. Composition of functions. Equipotent sets. Countability of sets. More about relations: equivalence relations, equivalence classes and partitions. Quotient sets. Order relations: Partial order, Total order, Well ordering. Mathematical induction and recursive definitions of functions. | |||||
MATH112 | DISCRETE MATHEMATICS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 4.5 |
Course ContentBasic counting: The sum and product rules, the pigeonhole principle, generalized permutations and combinations. The binomial theorem. Discrete probability. Inclusion-exclusion. Recurrence relations. Introduction to graphs and trees. | |||||
MATH113 | CALCULUS I | 5 | 4.00 | 2.00 | 7.5 |
Course ContentFunctions. Limits and Continuity. Tangent lines and derivatives. Chain rule. Implicit differentiation. Inverse functions. Related rates. Linear approximations. Extreme values. Mean Value Theorem and its applications. Sketching graphs. indeterminate forms and L'Hospital's rules. Definite integral, Antiderivatives and the Indefinite integral. Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. | |||||
MATH114 | CALCULUS II | 5 | 4.00 | 2.00 | 7.5 |
Course ContentSubstitution. Areas between curves. Integration Techniques, Improper integrals. Arc length. Volumes and surface areas of solids of revolution. Parametric plane curves. Polar coordinates. Arc length in polar coordinates. Sequences and infinite series. Power series. Taylor series. Functions of several variables: limits, continuity, partial derivatives. Chain rule. Directional derivatives. Tangent planes and linear approximations. Extreme values. Lagrange multipliers. | |||||
MATH115 | ANALYTIC GEOMETRY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 4.5 |
Course ContentFundamental principles of Analytic Geometry. Cartesian coordinates in plane and space. Lines in the plane. Review of trigonometry and polar coordinates. Rotation and translation in the plane. Vectors in plane and space. Lines and planes in 3-space. Basics about conics. Basic surfaces in space, cylinders, surface of revolutions, quadric surfaces. Cylindrical and spherical coordinates. | |||||
MATH116 | BASIC ALGEBRAIC STRUCTURES | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 4.5 |
Course ContentBinary operations. Groups. The symmetric group. Subgroups. The order of an element. Cyclic groups. Rings. Integral domains. Subrings. Ideals. Fields: Q, R, C, Zp. The concept of an isomorphism. The ring of integers and the ring of polynomials over a field: Division and Euclidean algorithms. GCD and LCM. Prime factorization. Quotient structures. | |||||
MATH117 | CALCULUS I | 5 | 4.00 | 2.00 | 7.5 |
Course ContentFunctions and their graphs. Limits and continuity. Tangent lines and derivative. Chain rule. Implicit differentiation. Inverse functions. Related rates. Linear approximation. Extreme values. Mean Value Theorem and its applications. Sketching graphs. Indeterminate forms and L Hospital s rules. Exponential growth and decay. Definite integral. Fundamental Theorem Calculus. Substitution and areas between curves. Formal definition of natural logarithm function. | |||||
MATH118 | CALCULUS II | 5 | 4.00 | 2.00 | 7.5 |
Course ContentIndefinite Integral. Techniques of integration. Arc length. Volumes and surface areas of solids of revolution. Improper integrals. Sequences and infinite series. Power series. Taylor series. Vectors and analytic geometry in 3-space. Functions of several variables:Limits, continuity, partial derivatives, chain rule, directional derivatives, tangent plane and linear approximations. Extreme values. Lagrange multipliers. Double integrals. | |||||
MATH120 | CALCULUS OF FUNCTIONS OF SEVERAL VARIABLES | 5 | 4.00 | 2.00 | 7.5 |
Course ContentSequences and infinite series. Power series. Taylor series. Vectors and analytic geometry in 3-space. Functions of several variables: limits, continuity, partial derivatives. Chain rule. Directional derivatives. Tangent planes and linear approximations. Extreme values. Lagrange multipliers. Double integrals. Double integrals in polar coordinates. General change of variables in double integrals. Surface parametrization and surface area in double integrals. Triple integrals in Cartesian, cylindrical and spherical coordinates. Parametrization of space curves. Line integrals. Path independence. Green s theorem in the plane. | |||||
MATH123 | INTRODUCTION TO NUMBER THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 4.5 |
Course ContentWell ordering of integers, mathematical and strong induction, Divisibility, Division algorithm, Greatest common divisor, Euclidean algorithm, Linear Diophantine equations, Prime numbers, Fundamental theorem of arithmetic, General information about Goldbach conjecture and gaps between primes and Drichlet`s theorem, Congruence modulo n, Modular arithmetic, Linear congruences, Chinese remainder theorem, Fermat`s little theorem, Wilson`s theorem, Number theoretic functions, Tau and sigma functions, Greatest integer function, Moebius inversion, Euler`s phi function, Euler`s theorem and its applications to cryptography. | |||||
MATH124 | INTRODUCTION TO LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ANALYTIC GEOMETRY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 4.5 |
Course ContentFundamental Principle of Analytic Geometry, Coordinate Systems in R^2 and R^3 vectors in R^2 and R^3. Dot product, cross product, lines, planes, distance, vector spaces, systems of linear equations, matrices, diagonalization of 2x2 and 3x3 matrices, conic sections and quadric surfaces, classification of quadric surfaces and curves (as an application of diagonalization). | |||||
MATH125 | BASIC MATHEMATICS I | 4 | 3.00 | 2.00 | 5.0 |
Course ContentLogic. Relations and Functions. Matrices and determinants. Inverse of a matrix, matrix polynomials, Cayley-Hamilton theorem. Systems of linear equations, parametric solutions. Counting: principle of inclusion exclusion, pigeonhole principle. Mathematical induction, recursive relations. Permutations, combinations. Discrete probability. Graphs. | |||||
MATH126 | BASIC MATHEMATICS II | 4 | 3.00 | 2.00 | 5.0 |
Course ContentAnalytic Geometry in R2 , R3. Functions of one and several variables: Limit, continuity and differentiation. Chain rule, implicit differentiation. Differential calculus, optimization, Lagrange multipliers. The definite integral. The indefinite integral. Logarithmic and exponential functions. Techniques of integration: Integration by substitution, integration by parts, integration by partial fractions. | |||||
MATH129 | SINGLE VARIABLE CALCULUS | 5 | 4.00 | 2.00 | 7.0 |
Course ContentFunctions. Limits and Continuity. Tangent lines and derivatives. chain rule. Implicit differentiation. Inverse functions. Related rates. Linear approximations. Extreme values. Mean Value Theorem and its applications. Sketching graphs. Indeterminate forms and L` Hospital`s rules. Definite integral. Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Substitution. Areas between curves. Formal definition of natural logarithm function. Techniques of integration. Improper integrals. Arc length. Volumes and surface areas of solids of revolution. Parametric plane curves. Polar coordinates. Arc length in polar coordinates. Sequences and infinite series. Power series. Taylor series and their applications. | |||||
MATH130 | MULTIVARIABLE AND VECTOR CALCULUS | 5 | 4.00 | 2.00 | 7.5 |
Course ContentVectors and analytic geometry in 3-space. Functions of several variables: limits, continuity, partial derivatives. Chain rule. Directional derivatives. Tangent planes and linear approximations. Extreme values. Lagrange multipliers. Double integrals, Double integrals in polar coordinates. General change of variables in double integrals. Surface parametrization and surface area in double integrals. Triple integrals in Cartesian, cylindrical and spherical coordinates. Parametrization of space curves. Line integrals. Path independence. Green's theorem in the plane. Surfaces and surface integrals. Flux integrals; gradient, divergence and curl. The divergence theorem in 3-space, Stokes` theorem, Fundamental Theorem of Vector Calculus. | |||||
MATH143 | MATHEMATICS FOR INFORMATICS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentLogic,sets,relations and functions; Boolean algebras; Elementary number theory ( Euclidean algorithm, Euler,s and Wilson,s theorem and their applications) ; discrete probability, elementary graph theory and its applications. | |||||
MATH153 | CALCULUS FOR MATHEMATICS STUDENTS I | 5 | 4.00 | 2.00 | 7.5 |
Course ContentFunctions, limit and derivative of a function of a single variable. A thorough discussion of the basic theorems of differential calculus: Intermediate value, extreme value, and the Mean Value Theorem. Applications: Graph sketching and problems of extrema. | |||||
MATH154 | CALCULUS FOR MATHEMATICS STUDENTS II | 5 | 4.00 | 2.00 | 7.5 |
Course ContentThe Riemann Integral. Mean Value Theorem for integrals. Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Techniques to evaluate anti derivative families various geometric and physical applications. Sequences improper integrals infinite series of constants power series and Taylors series with applications. | |||||
MATH201 | ELEMENTARY GEOMETRY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 4.5 |
Course Content(Only for students of EME 413)Introduces the axiomatic structures in geometry; finite geometries, Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries. Provides study in geometry and trigonometry including polygons, similar figures, geometric solids, properties of circles, constructions, right triangles, angle measurement in radians and degrees, trigonometric functions and their applications to right triangles, Phytagorean theorem, laws of sine and cosine, graphing of trigonometric functions, trigonometric identities, vectors and coordinate conversions. | |||||
MATH213 | CALCULUS III | 4 | 3.00 | 2.00 | 7.5 |
Course ContentMultiple integrals: Iterated integrals, Double Integrals, Triple Integrals, General change of variables. Double integrals in Polar coordinates, Triple integrals in Cartesian, cylindrical and spherical coordinates. Parametrization and orientation of curves. Line integrals. Independence of path, exact differentials, Greens Theorem. Parametrization and orientation of surfaces. Surface Integrals. Divergence and Stokes Theorems, applications | |||||
MATH214 | MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS | 4 | 3.00 | 2.00 | 7.5 |
Course ContentReal Number System. Sequences in R. Definitions of Limit and Continuity, Differentiability theorems, Integrability theorems in R. Infinite series of real numbers and infinite series of functions. Euclidean Spaces, topology of R^n. Convergence, differentiability and integrability on R^n. | |||||
MATH219 | INTRODUCTION TO DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS | 4 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 7.0 |
Course ContentFirst order equations and various applications. Higher order linear differential equations. Power series solutions: The Laplace transform: solution of initial value problems. Systems of linear differential equations: Introduction Partial Differential Equations. | |||||
MATH250 | ADVANCED CALCULUS IN STATISTICS | 5 | 4.00 | 2.00 | 9.0 |
Course ContentReview of Multidimensional Calculus. Derivatives of multivariable functions, continuity of multivariable functions. Fundamental Lemma for differentiability. Chain rule and Taylor`s Theorem for multivariable functions. Jacobian. Inverse and Implicit Function Theorems. Topology of R2 and R3. Riemann-Stieltjes Integral, integrability. Integrability of continuous functions, sequences of integrable functions. Bounded convergence and Riesz Representation Theorems. Theorems of Integral Calculus: Integration in Cartesian spaces. Improper and infinite integrals. Series of functions. | |||||
MATH251 | ADVANCED CALCULUS I | 4 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 10.0 |
Course ContentTopology of R, R2 and R 3 . Functions of several variables; limits and continuity. Partial derivatives, directional derivatives, gradients. Differentials and the tangent plane: the Fundamental Lemma, approximations. The Mean Value, implicit and Inverse function theorems. Extreme values. Introduction to vector differential calculus: the gradient, divergence and curl. Curvilinear coordinates. | |||||
MATH252 | ADVANCED CALCULUS II | 4 | 3.00 | 2.00 | 10.0 |
Course ContentDouble Integrals, polar coordinates. Improper double integrals. Change of variables in double integrals. Triple Integrals: Cylindrical and spherical coordinates. Applications. Line integrals: Parametrisation of curves, Greens Theorem. Independence of path, exact differentials. Parametrisation and orientation of surfaces. Surface Integrals. Divergence and Stokes Theorems, applications. | |||||
MATH254 | DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS | 4 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 7.0 |
Course ContentExistence and uniqueness theorems. First order equations. Trajectories. Higher order linear equations; undetermined coefficients, variation of parameters and operator methods. Power series solutions. Laplace transform solutions of IVPs. Theory of linear systems. Solutions by operator, Laplace and linear algebra methods. Partial differential equations, separation of variables and Fourier series. | |||||
MATH260 | BASIC LINEAR ALGEBRA | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 5.0 |
Course ContentMatrices, determinants and systems of linear equations. Vector spaces, the Euclidian space, inner product spaces, linear transformations. Eigenvalues, diagonalization. | |||||
MATH261 | LINEAR ALGEBRA I | 4 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 10.0 |
Course ContentMatrices and systems of linear equations. Vector spaces; subspaces, sums and direct sums of subspaces. Linear dependence, bases, dimension, quotient spaces. Linear transformations, kernel, range, isomorphism. Spaces of linear transformations, Hom (V,W),V*, V** transpose. Representations of linear transformations by matrices, similarity. Determinants. | |||||
MATH262 | LINEAR ALGEBRA II | 4 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 9.0 |
Course ContentCharacteristic and minimal polynomials of an operator, eigenvalues, diagonalizability, canonical forms, Smith normal form, Jordan and rational forms of matrices. Inner product spaces, norm and orthogonality, projections. Linear operators on inner product spaces, adjoint of an operator, normal, self adjoint, unitary and positive operators. Bilinear and quadratic forms. | |||||
MATH267 | ABSTRACT ALGEBRA I | 4 | 3.00 | 2.00 | 7.5 |
Course ContentBinary Operations, Groups, Subgroups, Subgroups generated by a set, Cyclic groups (generators and subgroups), Cosets and Lagrange?s Theorem. Normal Subgroups and Quotient groups, Homomorphisms and Isomorphisms, Permutation groups, Finite symmetric groups, Group actions, The orbit Stabilizer Theorem, Cayley?s Theorem, Conjugacy classes and the class equation, Cauchy?s theorem, Sylow theorems, Direct products, The fundamental theorem of finite abelian groups. | |||||
MATH268 | ABSTRACT ALGEBRA II | 4 | 3.00 | 2.00 | 7.5 |
Course ContentRings, integral domains, fields. Subrings and ideals. Quotient rings. Ring homomorphisms. Prime and maximal ideals. Field of fractions. Principal ideal domains, Euclidean domains, Unique factorization domains. Polynomial rings: Factorization in polynomial rings, Euclidean algorithm in polynomial rings over fields. Field Extensions, extension degrees, algebraic and transcendental elements. Geometric constructions. Finite Fields. | |||||
MATH301 | INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentSample spaces and probabilities. Conditional probability. Random variables, their distribution functions, expectation and variance. Normal approximation. Poisson approximation. Moment generating functions. Joint distribution of random variables. Covariance and correlation. Tail bounds. Law of large numbers. Central limit theorem. | |||||
MATH303 | HISTORY OF MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS I | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentMathematics in Egypt and Mesopotamia, Ionia and Pythagoreans, paradoxes of Zeno and the heroic age. Mathematical works of Plato, Aristotle, Euclid of Alexandria, Archimedes, Appolonius and Diophantus. Mathematics in China and India. | |||||
MATH304 | HISTORY OF MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS II | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentMathematics of the Renaissance, Islamic contributions. Solution of the cubic equation and consequences. Invention of logarithms. Time of Fermat and Descartes. Development of the limit concept. Newton and Leibniz. The age of Euler. Contributions of Gauss and Cauchy. Non-Euclidean geometries. The arithmetization of analysis. The rise of abstract algebra. Aspects of the twentieth century. | |||||
MATH319 | LEBESGUE INTEGRAL | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentReview of Riemann integration. Sets of (Lebesgue) measure zero in Rn and charac-terization of Riemann integrable functions. Lebesgue integrable functions and the Lebesgue integral in Rn. Convergence theorems, theorems of Lusin and Egorov. Fubini`s theorem. Selected applications. | |||||
MATH320 | SET THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentLanguage and axioms of set theory. Ordered pairs, relations and functions. Order relation and well ordered sets. Ordinal numbers, transfinite induction, arithmetic of ordinal numbers. Cardinality and arithmetic of cardinal numbers. Axiom of choice, generalized continuum hypothesis. | |||||
MATH332 | THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF STOCHASTIC PROCESSES | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentIntroduction to stochastic processes. Emergence and applications of stochastic processes in various areas of mathematics such as geometry and group theory. Finite and countable Markov chains. Classification of states with proofs. Continuous-time Markov chains; Poisson process. Conditional expectation. Martingales. Brownian motion. Fractal nature of zero sets of Brownian motion. | |||||
MATH341 | GRAPH THEORY I | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentGraphs, varieties of graphs, connectedness, extremal graphs, blocks, trees, partitions, line graphs, planarity, Kuratowsky`s theorem, colorability, chromatice numbers, five color theorem, four color conjecture. | |||||
MATH349 | INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL ANALY. | 4 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 9.0 |
Course ContentLUB Property of real numbers. Compactness, connectedness, limits and continuity in metric spaces. Sequences and series of scalars, complete metric spaces, limsup. Sequences and series of functions, uniform convergence, applications. | |||||
MATH350 | DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS II | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentExistence and uniqueness theorems for IVP; first order equations, systems and higher order equations. Structure of linear problems. Boundary value problems and eigenvalue problems. Oscillation and comparison theorems. | |||||
MATH353 | COMPLEX CALCULUS | 4 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentAlgebra of complex numbers. Polar representation. Analyticity. Cauchy-Riemann equations. Power series. Elementary functions. Mapping by elementary functions. Linear fractional transformations. Line integral. Cauchy-Theorem. Cauchy integral formula. Taylor`s Series. Laurent series. Residues. Residue theorem. Improper integrals. | |||||
MATH355 | OPERATIONAL CALCULUS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentFourier series. The Fourier transform, inverse Fourier transform. The Laplace transform. The inversion integral for the Laplace transform (complex contour integration). Applications of Laplace transform to linear ordinary, partial differential and integral equations. The z-transform. The inversion integral for the z-transform. Applications of z-transform to difference equations and linear networks. | |||||
MATH357 | PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS | 4 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 5.0 |
Course ContentFor course details, see https://catalog2.metu.edu.tr. | |||||
MATH358 | PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS | 4 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 10.0 |
Course ContentFirst order equations; linear, quasilinear and nonlinear equations. Classification of second order linear partial differential equations, canonical forms. The Cauchy problem for the wave equation. Dirichlet and Neumann problems for the Laplace equation, maximum principle. Heat equation on the strip. | |||||
MATH361 | NUMBER THEORY I | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentPrimitive roots of an integer, Integers n for which Z_n^* is cyclic, Theory of indices, Quadratic residues, Legendre symbol, Quadratic Reciprocity Law, Solving quadratic congruences. Perfect numbers, Mersenne primes, Fermat numbers, Fibonacci numbers, Linear Diophantine equations, Pythagorean triples, Quadratic Diophantine equations, Fermat?s Infinite descent (x^4+-y^4=z^2 equations), Representing integers as sums of squares, Pell`s equation, Finite and infinite continued fractions, Solving Pell`s equation using continued fractions. | |||||
MATH365 | ELEMENTARY NUMBER THEORY I | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentDivisibility, congruences, Euler, Chinese Remainder and Wilson`s Theorems. Arithmetical functions. Primitive roots. Quadratic residues and quadratic reciprocity. Diophantine equations. | |||||
MATH366 | ELEMENTARY NUMBER THEORY II | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentArithmetic in quadratic fields. Factorization theory. Continued fractions, periodicity. Transcendental numbers. | |||||
MATH367 | ABSTRACT ALGEBRA | 4 | 3.00 | 2.00 | 9.0 |
Course ContentGroups. Isomorphism theorems, direct pro-ducts. Groups acting on sets. Class equation. Statements of Sylow theorems and the F.T. on finite abelian groups. Rings, isomorphism theorems. Prime and maximal ideals. Integral domains, field of fractions. Euclidean domains, PIDs, UFDs. Polynomials, polynomials in several variables. Field extensions. Impossibility of certain geometric constructions. Finite fields. | |||||
MATH368 | FIELD EXTENSIONS AND GALOIS THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentField extensions, splitting field of a polynomial, multiple roots, Galois group, criteria for solvability by radicals, Galois group as permutation groups of the roots of polynomials of degree n, constructible n-gons, transcendence of e, finite fields. | |||||
MATH371 | DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY | 4 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 9.0 |
Course ContentCurves in R3: Frenet formulas and Fundamental Theorem. Regular surfaces. Inverse image of regular values. Differentiable functions on surfaces. Tangent plane; the differential of a map, vector fields, the first fundamental form. Gauss map, second fundamental form, normal, principal curvatures, principal and asymptotic directions. Gauss map in local coordinates. Covariant derivative, geodesics. | |||||
MATH373 | GEOMETRY I | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentFoundations: The parallel axiom, models, Hilbert`s theorem. Triangles: Theorems of Menelaus and Ceva, classical remarkable points. Circles: Power of a point with respect to a circle, coaxal systems of circles, inversive geometry. Conic sections: Focus and directrix, reflection property, theorems of Poncelet. | |||||
MATH374 | GEOMETRY II | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentProjective spaces over division rings. Theorems of Desargues and Pappus. Harmonic ranges and pencils, collineations, correlations, involutions, polarities. Affine geometry via `the line at infinity`. Euclidean geometry with `circular points at infinity`. Conic sections and quadric surfaces. | |||||
MATH375 | PERIODIC DISTRIBUTIONS & FOURIER SERIES | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentProperties of periodic functions, convolution, approximation, Weierstrass approximation theorem. Periodic distributions, operations on periodic distributions. Hilbert spaces, L2, orthogonal expansions, Fourier series. Applications of Fourier series. | |||||
MATH381 | NUMERICAL ANALYSIS I | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentConvergence, stability, error analysis and conditioning. Solving systems of linear equations: The LU and Cholosky factorization, pivoting, error analysis in Gaussian elimination. Matrix eigenvalue problem, power method, orthogonal factorizations and least squares problems. Solutions of nonlinear equations. Bisection, Newton`s, secant and fixed point iteration methods. | |||||
MATH382 | NUMERICAL ANALYSIS II | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentApproximating functions: polynomial interpolation, divided differences, Hermite interpolation, spline interpolation, the B-splines, Taylor Series, least square app-roximation. Numerical differentiation and integration based on interpolation. Richardson extrapolation, Gaussian quadrature, Romberg integration, adaptive quadrature, Bernoulli polynomials and Euler-Maclaurin formula. | |||||
MATH385 | SPECIAL FUNCTIONS OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentGamma and Beta functions. Pochhammer`s symbol. Hypergeometric series. Hypergeomet-ric differential equation; ordinary and con-fluent hypergeometric functions. Generalized hypergeometric functions; the contiguous function relations. Bessel function; the functional relationships, Bessel`s differential equation. Orthogonality of Bessel functions. | |||||
MATH390 | COMPUTER ALGEBRA | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentIntroductory information about reduce. Structure of programs, built in prefix operators. Procedures. A computer Algebra system. How to use a Computer Algebra systems. Representations of polynomials, rational functions, algebraic functions, matrices and series. Advanced algorithms. g.c.d. in several variables. Other applications of modular methods. P-adic Methods. Formal integration and differential equations. | |||||
MATH396 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND APPLICATIONS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentBasic problem-solving strategies. A heuristic search principle. Problem reduction and AND/OR graphs. Expert systems and knowledge representation. An expert system shell. Planning. Language processing with grammar rules. Machine learning. Game playing. Logic and uncertainty. Meta programming. | |||||
MATH401 | PROBABILITY THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentProbability spaces and measures. Randotn variables, Independence. Characteristic functions. Gaussian random variables. Convergence of random variables. Laws of large numbers. Central limit theorem. Conditional expectation. | |||||
MATH402 | INTRODUCTION TO OPTIMIZATION | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentThe importance of optimization, basic definition and facts on convex analysis. Theory of linear programming and convex prog-ramming, simplex method and its applications, nonlinear programming, search methods, basic ideas of classical variational calculus, optimal control theory. Pontraygin`s maximum principle and dynamic programming, linear theory of optimal control. | |||||
MATH404 | INTRO.TO VECTOR LATTICES AND APPLICATION | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentRiesz spaces (vector lattices). Riesz subspaces, ideals and bands. Normed Riesz spaces. Order convergence, relatively uniform convergence and norm convergence. Operators on Riesz spaces. | |||||
MATH405 | COMBINATORICS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentBasic counting: permutations, r-permutations, combinations, multinomial coefficients, occupancy problems, good algorithms,. Generating functions: power series, operating on generating functions, applications to counting, binomial theorem, exponential generating functions, probability generating functions. Recurrence relations: simple recurrences, linear recurrence relations, characteristic equations, solving recurrences using generating functions, simultaneous equations, recurrences involving convolutions. Divide and conquer algorithms. Experimental design: Blockdesign, balanced incomplete blockdesign. Applications: coding theory, Hadamard designs. | |||||
MATH406 | INTR.TO MATH.LOGIC AND MODEL THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentFirst order language, structures and satisfaction. Completeness and compactness theorems. Isomorphism, elementary equivalence and elementary imbedding. Löwenheim-Skolem theorem. Interpolation and definability. Atomic, universal and saturated models and their characterisation. Extensions of first order logic. | |||||
MATH407 | INTRODUCTION TO GAME THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentStrategic games, Nash equilibrium, Bayesian Games, Mixed, Correlated, Evolutionary equilibrium, extensive games with perfect information, bargaining games, reğeated games, extensive games with imperfect information, sequential equilibrium, coalition games, core, stable sets, bargaining aets, shapley value, market games. | |||||
MATH410 | MODELLING MATH.METHODS AND SCI.COMP. | 3 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentIntroduction to numerical and symbolical computational tools. Balance equations, continuos system models and partial differential equations. Introduction to numerical methods for ordinary and partial differential equations. Case studies from mechanics, fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer, electrical engineering. Introduction to stochastic process and differential equations. Models from mathematical finance. | |||||
MATH420 | POINT-SET TOPOLOGY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentTopological Spaces; basis, subbasis, subspaces. Closed sets, limit points. Hausdorff Spaces. Continuous functions, homeomorphisms. Product topology. Connected spaces, compo-nents, path connectedness, path components. Compactness, sequential compactness, compactness in metric spaces. Definition of regular and normal spaces. Urysohn`s Lemma, Tietsze Extension Theorem. | |||||
MATH421 | DISCRETE GEOMETRY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentConvex sets, subdivision problems, isoperimetric inequality, Minkowski sum; polytopes, Dehn-Sommerville equations, scissors equivalence; Erdös distance set problem, line arrangements, counting lattice points; packing, covering and tiling problems | |||||
MATH422 | ELEMENTARY GEOMETRIC TOPOLOGY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentTopology of subsets of Euclidean space. Topological surfaces. Surfaces in Rn. Surfaces via gluing, connected sum and the classification of compact connected surfaces. Simplicial complexes and simplicial surfaces (simplicial complexes with underlying spaces that are topological surfaces). Euler characteristic. | |||||
MATH423 | INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTATIONAL TOPOLOGY | 3 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentBasic topology, Surfaces and their triangulations, Complexes, Homology, Persistence homology, Morse functions, Discrete Morse Functions, Applications. | |||||
MATH424 | GALOIS THEORY OF COVERINGS AND LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS | 3 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentBasics of topological spaces, fundamental groups covering spaces, topological Galois Theory, functions on surfaces, differential equations, regular singular points and differential equations of Fuchsian type | |||||
MATH430 | CHAOTIC DYNAMICS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentMappings. Time series. Orbits. Periodic orbits. Fixed points and periodic points. Finding periodu points. Eventually periodic points. Families of mappings and bifurcations. Transitivity. Sensitive dependence. Dense periodic points. One-dimensional chaos. Devaney ingredients. The logistic map. Period-three points and chaos. Period-doubling bifurcation, Two-dimensional chaos. The Henon map. The Horseshoe map. Dimensions. Systems of differential equations. Homoclinic chaos. Dynamics on labels, Fractals. Abstract similarity map, Abstract similarity sets, Labeling. Chaos in stochastic processes | |||||
MATH432 | COMPUTABILITY THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentWell-formed formulas of Peano arithmetic, Gödel numbering, primitive recursive functions, Gödels Incompleteness Theorems, partial recursive functions, Turing machines, Church-Turing Thesis, decidabilitiy, recursion theorem, s-m-n theorem, padding lemma, recursively enumerable sets, computable approximations, halting problem, creative sets, simple sets, Turing reducibility, Turing degrees, properties of Turing degrees, recursively enumerable degrees, joins, Turing jump. | |||||
MATH441 | MECHANICS I | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentStatics of rigid bodies, statics of suspended strings and cables. Kinematics of a particle. Translation, rotation of rigid body about an axis and about a fixed point, relative motion. Dynamics of a particle, harmonic oscillators, motion of a simple pendulum, flight of a projectile, motion under the action of central forces. Dynamics of a system of particles, motion of a body with varying mass. | |||||
MATH452 | INTRODUCTION TO FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentNormed linear spaces, Banach spaces. Hahn-Banach Theorem and consequences. Baire category Theorem. Uniform boundedness principle. Open Mapping and Closed Graph Theorems. Selected topics and applications. | |||||
MATH453 | INTRODUCTION TO COMPLEX ANALYSIS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentRiemann mapping theorem and Schwarz-Christofel transformations zn, z1/n. Elementary Riemann surfaces. Applications of conformal mapping: (flows, heat conduction, electrostatistics,...) Analytic continuation. Argument principle, Rouche`s theorem. Mapping properties of analytic functions (inverse function theorem, open mapping theorem, maximum modulus theorem). | |||||
MATH456 | FOURIER ANALYSIS AND WAVELETS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentOrthogonality and modes of convergence. Fourier series, convergence of Fourier series, Fourier transform, Fourier inversion, discrete Fourier transform. Haar and Daubechies wavelets, decomposition and reconstruction, multiresolution analysis. Applications. | |||||
MATH457 | CALCULUS ON MANIFOLDS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentReview of differentiation, inverse and implicit function theorems, integration on subsets of Euclidean space, tensors, differential forms, integration on chains, integration on manifolds. Stokes` theorem. | |||||
MATH461 | RINGS AND MODULES | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentClassical theory of rings, ideal theory, isomorphism theorems. The group ring. Localization. Submodules, direct products direct sums, factor modules and factor rings. Homomorphisms. Classical isomorphism the-orems. The endomorphism ring of a module. Free modules, free and divisible abelian groups. Tensor product of modules. Finitely generated modules over principal ideal domains. | |||||
MATH463 | GROUP THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentGroup, subgroup, normal subgroup, cyclic subgroup, coset, quotient group. Commutator subgroup, center, homomorphism and isomorphism theorems (invariant subgroup, wreath products), Abelian groups. Free abelian group, rank of an abelian group. Divisible abelian group, periodic Abelian group. Sylow Theorems and their applications, soluble groups, nilpotent groups. | |||||
MATH464 | INTRODUCTION TO REPRESENTATION THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentGroup representations, FG-Modules, Machke Theorem, irreducible modules and group algebras, characters, inner products of characters, the number of irreducible characters, character table, induced modules and characters, algebraic integers and real representations. | |||||
MATH465 | GEOMETRIC ALGEBRA | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentGeneral linear groups. Bilinear forms. Projective geometry and projective linear groups. Symplectic and orthogonal geometries. Symplectic groups. Orthogonal groups. Hermitian forms and unitary groups. | |||||
MATH466 | GROUPS AND GEOMETRY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentSymmetry. Isometrics of R?, the Euclidean group, symmetry groups of regular polygons and polyhedra, classification of finite subgroups of the three dimensional rotation group. Frieze groups, crystals, wallpaper groups, groups of acting on trees. Reflection groups, root systems, classification of finite reflection groups, crystallographic root systems and Weyl groups. | |||||
MATH471 | HYPERBOLIC GEOMETRY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentParallel postulate and the need for non-Euclidean geometry, models of the hyperbolic plane, Möbius group, classification of Möbius transformations, classical geometric notions such as length, distance, isometry, parallelism, convexity, area, trigonometry in the hyperbolic plane, groups acting on the hyperbolic plane, fundamental domains. | |||||
MATH473 | IDEALS VARIETIES AND ALGORITHMS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentAffine varieties. Groebner bases, monomial ideals and Dickson`s Lemma, Hilbert Basis Theorem. Buchberger`s algorithm. Ideal membership problem. The problem of Elimination Theory. Unique factorization and resultants. Resultant and extension Theorem. | |||||
MATH476 | ALGEBRAIC CURVES | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentAffine and projective plane curves, local properties of plane curves, multiple points, intersection numbers, Bezout`s theorem, Noether`s fundamental theorem. Applications to some enumerative geometry problems. Prerequisite: 2360 367 and 2360 353. | |||||
MATH477 | GEOMETRY III | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentHilbert `s axioms. Geometry over fields. Segment arithmetic. Area. Construction problems and field extensions. | |||||
MATH478 | MATHEMATICAL ASPECTS OF CRYPTOGRAPHY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentTime estimates for doing arithmetic, some simple cryptosystems, the idea of public key cryptosystems, RSA, discrete log, knapsack, primality and factoring, the rho method, Fermat factorization, the continued fraction method. | |||||
MATH480 | NUMERICAL METHODS FOR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentInitial value problems for ordinary differential equations, Convergence, Stability, Stiffness, Predictor-corrector methods, Boundary value problems, Hyperbolic and Elliptic differential equations, Iterative methods. | |||||
MATH486 | FUNDAMENTALS OF DATA SYSTEMS | 3 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentDatabase concepts. Database Management Systems (DBMS). Relational data model and relational DBMS. Use of ER-diagrams in database design. Normalizing relations. Relational algebra and query languages. Structured Query Language (SQL). Oracle and/or Access will be introduced in a laboratory environment. | |||||
MATH487 | APPLIED MATHEMATICS I | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentMathematical modelling of boundary value problems of partial differential equations. Formulation of Dirichlet and Neumann problems. Green`s function. Asymptotic analysis of solutions. Perturbation techniques. | |||||
MATH488 | APPLIED MATHEMATICS II | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentIntroduction to integral equations. Volterra and Fredholm equations. Solutions by Neumann series. Connection with eigenvalue problems. Essentials of calculus of variations, Euler-Lagrange equations, canonical form of the Euler equation, applications to mechanics and mathematical physics. | |||||
MATH489 | DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentSecond order differential equations in phase plane. Linear systems and exponential operators, canonical forms. Stability of equilibria. Lyapunov functions. The existence of periodic solutions. Applications to various fields. | |||||
MATH490 | DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentThe Difference calculus. Linear difference equations: First order equations, high order equations. Systems of difference equations. Basic theory. Linear periodic systems. Stability theory. Linear approximation. Lyapunov`s second method. The Z transform. Asymptotic behaviour of difference equations. Sturmian theory. Oscillation. | |||||
MATH493 | PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentPhilosophical problems about mathematics, Euclidean and non-Euclidean Geometries. The existence of mathematical objects, mathematical truth, Wittgenstein and Lakatos on mathematics. | |||||
MATH496 | SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT STUDY &RESEARCH | 2 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 4.0 |
Course ContentIndividualized reading, and study/research in mathematics for students of high intellectual promise. | |||||
MATH497 | HILBERT SPACE TECHNIQUES | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentInner product spaces. Examples of inner product spaces; Hilbert spaces (definition and examples); convergence in Hilbert spaces; orthogonal complements and the projection theorem; linear functionals and the Riesz representation theorem; applications to various branches of Mathematics. | |||||
MATH500 | M.S. THESIS | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 50.0 |
Course ContentProgram of research leading to M.S. degree arranged between student and a faculty member. Students register to this course in all semesters starting from the beginning of their second semester while the research program or write-up of thesis is in progress. | |||||
MATH501 | ANALYSIS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentGeneral measure and integration theory. General convergence theorems. Decomposition of measures. Radon-Nikodym Theorems. Outer measure. Caratheodory extension theorem. Product measures. Fubini's theorem. Riesz representation theorem. | |||||
MATH502 | SPECTRAL THEORY OF LINEAR OPERATORS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCompact operators, compact operators in Hilbert Spaces, Banach Algebras, The spectral theorem for normal operators, unbounded operators between Hilbert spaces, the spectral theorem for unbounded self-adjoint operators, self-adjoint operators, self-adjoint extensions. | |||||
MATH503 | ALGEBRA I | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentGroups quotient groups, isomorphism theorems, alternating and dihedral groups, direct products, free groups, generators and relations, free abelian groups, actions. Sylow theorems, nilpotent and solvable groups, normal and subnormal series. Rings, ring homomorphisms, ideals, factorization in commutative rings, rings of quotients, localization, principle ideal domains, Eucladian domains, unique factorization domains, polynomials and formal power series, factorization in polynomial rings. | |||||
MATH504 | ALGEBRA II | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentModules; homomorphisms, exact sequences., projective and injective modules, free modules, vector spaces, tensor products, modules over a PID. Fields, field extensions, the fundamental theorem of Galois theory, splitting fields, algebraic closure and normality, the Galois group of a polynomial, finite fields. | |||||
MATH505 | DIFFERENTIABLE MANIFOLDS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentDifferentiable manifolds, smooth mappings, tangent, cotangent bundles, differential of a map, submanifolds, immersions, imbeddings, vector fields, tensor fields, differential forms, orientation on manifolds, integration on manifolds, Stoke's theorem. | |||||
MATH506 | COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES | 0 | 0.00 | 4.00 | 10.0 |
Course ContentThe aim of this course is to test the knowledge of the student in the basic areas of mathematics. For this purpose, a written exam is given in the following topics and subtopics: Algebra (A. Groups and Rings B. Modules and Fields), Analysis (A. Real Analysis B. Complex Analysis), Differential Equations (A. Ordinary DE B. Partial DE), Geometry-Topology (A. Geometry B. Topology), Numerical Analysis (A. Numerical Analysis I B. Numerical Analysis II). Each student is required to take the exam in 4 subtopics chosen from 3 distinct topics. | |||||
MATH508 | RESEARCH & ETHICS IN MATHEMATICS | 0 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 10.0 |
Course ContentGeneral research guidelines and general tools: Resources in mathematical research, use of databases, libraries etc. Publications and their types. The nature of graduate studies, aims of an M.S. thesis and a Ph.D. thesis. Writing theses and paper. Journal types. Citation indices and impact factors. Academic integrity and ethics, ethical issues in research and publications, plagiarism and its various forms, code of conduct in graduate studies. | |||||
MATH511 | FINITE GROUPS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentAbelian groups; torsion, divisible, torsion-free groups, pure subgroups, finitely generated abelian groups. Solvable and nilpotent groups, Hall ?-subgroups. Permutation groups. Representations. Fixed-point free automorphisms. Locally nilpotent groups, locally solvable groups. Finiteness properties. Infinite solvable groups. | |||||
MATH512 | INFINITE GROUPS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentLocally finite groups. Maximal and minimal condition on subgroups, Cernikov groups and automorphisms of Cernikov groups, direct limit inverse limit of groups, linear groups, locally finite simple groups, Hall universal group, centralizers of elements in simple locally finite groups. | |||||
MATH513 | REPRESENTATION THEORY OF FINITE GROUPS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentRing theoretic preliminaries. Group representations and their characters. Characters, integrality and application to the structure theory of finite groups. Product of characters. Induced characters. Reduction and extension of characters. Brauer's theorem on characterization of characters. | |||||
MATH515 | COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentRings and ideals. Modules. Rings and modules of fractions. Primary decomposition. Integral dependence. | |||||
MATH521 | FINITE FIELDS AND APPLICATIONS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentIntroduction to finite fields. Traces, norms and bases, factoring polynomials over finite fields, construction of irreducible polynomials, normal bases, optimal normal bases. | |||||
MATH522 | CODING THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentBasic concepts and examples, linear codes (Hamming, Golay, reed-Muller codes) bounds on codes, cyclic codes (BCH, RS; Quadratic Residue Codes), Goppa codes. | |||||
MATH523 | ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentRing of integers of an algebraic number field. Integral bases. Norms and traces. The discriminant. Factorization into irreducibles. Euclidean domains. Dedekind domains. Prime factorization of ideals. Minkowskis theorem. Class-group and class number. | |||||
MATH524 | THEORY OF FUNCTION FIELDS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentValuations. Divisors, repartitions, differentials. Riemann-Roch Theorem. Rational function fields, elliptic and hyperelliptic function fields. Congruence zeta function, the functional equation for the L-functions. | |||||
MATH525 | ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentDirichlet series, Dirichlet L-functions, Chebychevs y and q functions, prime number theorem, distribution of primes, functional equations. | |||||
MATH526 | MODULAR FUNCTIONS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentElliptic functions, modular functions, Dedekind eta function, congruencies for the coefficients of the modular function j, Rademacher s series for the partition function, modular forms with multiplicative coefficients, Kronecker s theorem, general Dirichlet series and Bohr s equivalence theorem. | |||||
MATH535 | TOPOLOGY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentTopological spaces. Neighborhoods. Basis. Subspace topology, product and quotient topologies. Compactness. Tychonoff's Theorem. Heine-Borel theorem. Separation properties. Urysohn's Lemma and Tietze Extension theorem. Stone-Cech compactification. Alexandroff one point compactification. Convergence of sequences and nets. Connectedness. Metrizability. Complete metric spaces. Baire's theorem. | |||||
MATH537 | ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY I | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentFundamental group, Van Kampens Theorem, covering spaces. Singular homology: Homotopy invariance, homology long exact sequence, Mayer-Vietoris sequence, excision. Cellular homology. Homology with coefficients. Simplicial homology and the equivalence of simplicial and singular homology. Axioms of homology. Homology and fundamental groups. Simplicial approximation. Applications of homology. | |||||
MATH538 | ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY II | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentComohology groups, Universal Coefficient Theorem, comohology of spaces. Products in comohology, Kunneth formula. Poincare duality. Universal coefficient theorem for homology. Homotopy groups. | |||||
MATH541 | DIFFERENTIAL TOPOLOGY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentManifolds and differentiable structures. Tangent Space. Vector bundles. Immersions, submersions, embeddings. Transversality. Sard's theorem. Whitney Embedding Theorem. The exponential map and tubular neighborhoods. Manifolds with boundary. Thom's tranversality Theorem. | |||||
MATH543 | LOW DIMENSIONAL TOPOLOGY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course Content4-manifolds, surfaces in 4-manifolds, complex surfaces, complex curves and their desingularizations. Elliptic surfaces; classification of complex surfaces and logarithmic transform. Handle decomposition, Heegard splitting and Kirby diagrams. Linking numbers and framings. Kirby calculus, handle moves and Dehn surgery. Spin structures, plumbings and related constructions. Embedded surfaces and branched covers. | |||||
MATH545 | DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY I | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentReview of differentiable manifolds and tensor fields. Riemannian metrics, the Levi-civita connections. Geodesics and exponential map. Curvature tensor, sectional curvature. Ricci tensor, scalar curvature. Riemannian submanifolds. Gauss and Codazzi equations. | |||||
MATH546 | DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY II | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentLie groups; principle fibre bundles; almost complex and complex manifolds; Hermitian and Kaehlerian geometry; symmetric spaces. | |||||
MATH551 | ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentTheory of algebraic varieties: Affine and projective varieties, dimension, singular points, divisors, differentials, Bezout's theorem. | |||||
MATH552 | ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY II | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentReview of sheaves; quasi-coherent and coherent sheaves, direct and inverse images. Proper morphisms, quasi-coherent sheaves on projective schemes, projective morphisms. Cohomology of sheaves, cohomology of a projective scheme, higher direct images. Geometric applications. | |||||
MATH555 | THEO. OF FUNC. OF A COMPLEX VARIABLE | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentAnalytic functions. Singular points and zeros. The argument principle. Conformal mappings. Riemann Mapping Theorem. Mittag-Lefler Theorem. Infinite products. Canonical products. Analytical continuation. Elementary Riemann surfaces. | |||||
MATH566 | POSITIVE OPERATORS AND BANACH LATTICES | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentVector lattices. Basic inequalities, Basic properties, Positive operators. Extension of positive operators. Order projectives. Order continuous operators. Lattice Homomorphisms. Orthomorphism. Banach Lattices with order continuous norms. Weak compactness in Banach Lattices. Embedding Banach spaces. Banach lattices of operators. Compact operators. Weakly compact operators. | |||||
MATH570 | FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS II | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentReview of metric spaces, Normed Linear Spaces, Dual Spaces and Hahn-Banach Theorem, Bidual and Reflexivity, Baires Theorem, Dual Maps, Projections, Hubert Spaces, The spaces Lp(X,m), C(X), Locally Convex Vector Spaces, Duality Theory of lcs, Projective and Inductive topologies. | |||||
MATH571 | TOPOLOGICAL VECTOR SPACES | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentIntroduction to topological vector spaces, locally convex topological vector spaces. Inductive and projective limits. Frechet spaces. Montel, Schwartz, nuclear spaces. Bases in Frechet spaces and the quasi-equivalence property. Köthe sequence spaces. Linear topological invariants. | |||||
MATH581 | NUMERICAL ANALYSIS I | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentError analysis. Solutions of linear systems: LU factorization and Gaussian elimination, QR factorization, condition numbers and numerical stability, computational cost. Least squares problems: the singular value decomposition (SVD), QR algorithm, numerical stability. Eigenvalue problems: Jordan canonical form and conditioning, Schur factorization, the power method, QR algorithm for eigenvalues. Iterative Methods: construction of Krylov subspace, the conjugate gradient and GMRES methods for linear systems, the Arnoldi and Lanczos method for eigenvalue problems. | |||||
MATH582 | NUMERICAL ANALYSIS II | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentInterpolation and approximation: Lagrange and Newton interpolation, Hermite interpolation, trigonometric interpolation and Fourier series. Spline interpolation B-splines and recursive algorithms. Numerical differentation and quadrature: Newton-Cotes formulas, Gaussian integration rules. Extrapolation and Romberg integration, adaptive quadrature. Hierarchal and recursive quadrature formulas: Archimedes integration formula. Root finding methods. | |||||
MATH583 | PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCauchy-Kowalevski Theorem. Linear and quasilinear first order equations. Existence and uniqueness theorems for second order elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic equations. Correctly posed problems, Green's functions. | |||||
MATH584 | PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS II | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentSobolev spaces: Weak Derivatives, Approximation by Smooth functions, Extentions, Traces, Sobolev Inequalities, The Space H^-1. Second-order Elliptic Equations: Weak Solutions, Lax-Milgram Teorem, Energy estimates, Fredholm Alternative, Regularity, Maximum Principles, Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions. Linear Evolution Equations: Second-order Parabolic equations, (Weak solutions, Regularity, Maximum principle), Second-order Hyperbolic Equations (Weak Solutions, Regularity, Propagation of disturbances), Hyperbolic Systems of First-order Equations, Semigroup theory. | |||||
MATH587 | ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS I | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentInitial Value Problem: Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions; Continuation of Solutions; Continuous and Differential Dependence of Solutions. Linear Systems: Linear Homogeneous And Nonhomogeneous Systems with Constant and Variable Coefficients; Structure of Solutions of Systems with Constant and Periodic Coefficients; Higher Order Linear Differential Equations; Sturmian Theory, Stability: Lyapunov Stability and Instability. Lyapunov Functions; Lyapunov's Second Method; Quasilinear Systems; Linearization; Stability of an Equilibrium and Stable Manifold for Nonautonomous Differential Equations. | |||||
MATH588 | ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS II | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentNonlinear Periodic Systems: Limit Sets; Poincare-Bendixon Theorem. Linearization Near Periodic Orbits; Method of Small Parameters in Noncritical Case; Orbital stability. Bifurcation: Bifurcation of Fixed Points; The Saddle-Node Bifurcation; The Transcritical Bifurcation; The Pitchfork Bifurcation; Hopf Bifurcation; Branching of Periodic Solutions for Nonautonomous Systems. Boundary Value Problems: Linear Differential Operators; Boundary Conditions; Existence of Solutions of BVPs; Adjoint Problems; Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions for Linear Differential Operators; Green's Function of a Linear Differential Operator. | |||||
MATH589 | IMPULSIVE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS | 3 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentGeneral description of impulsive differential equations: Systems with fixed moments of impulses; systems with variable moments of impulses; discontinuous dynamical systems. Linear systems: General properties of solutions; periodic solutions; Floquet theory; adjoint systems. Stability: Stability criterion based on linearization of systems; direct Lyapunov method; B-equivalence; stability of systems with variable time of impulses. Quasilinear systems: Bounded solutions; periodic solutions; quasiperiodic and almost periodic solutions; integral manifolds. Discontinuous dynamical systems and applications. | |||||
MATH591 | SEMINAR I | 0 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 10.0 |
Course ContentPresentation involving current research given by graduate students and invited speakers. | |||||
MATH592 | SEMINAR II | 0 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 10.0 |
Course ContentPresentation involving current research given by graduate students and invited speakers. | |||||
MATH593 | NUMERICAL SOLUT. OF PARTIAL DIFF. EQU. | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentFinite difference method, stability, convergence and error analysis. Initial and boundary conditions, irregular boundaries. Parabolic equations; explicit and implicit methods, stability analysis, error reduction, variable coefficients, derivative boundary conditions, solution of tridiagonal systems. Elliptic equations, iterative methods, rate of convergence. Hyperbolic equations. The Lax-Wendroff method, variable coefficients, systems of conservation laws, stability. Finite volume method. | |||||
MATH594 | THEORY OF SPECIAL FUNCTIONS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentAppell's symbol and hypergeometric series. The gamma function. The beta function. Dirichlet averages. Jacobi polynomials. Elliptic integrals. | |||||
MATH595 | THE BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD & APP. | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentWeighted residual methods, the boundary element method for Laplace and Poisson equations. The dual reciprocity method, computer implementation. | |||||
MATH596 | COMPUTATIONAL BASIS OF FLUID DYNAM. EQ | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentIntroduction to fluid behavior. Derivation of continuity, momentum and energy equations. Navies-Stokes equations. Stream function, vorticity. Solutions of creeping, potential, laminar, boundary layer, turbulent flows. Solution of Navier-Stokes equations using finite difference methods in velocity-pressure , stream function-vorticity and stream function forms. Example solutions. Stability, convergence and error analysis. | |||||
MATH599 | TERM PROJECT | 0 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 20.0 |
Course ContentProject carried out under the supervision of a faculty member in a specific area of mathematics. A written report is expected from students about their work. | |||||
MATH600 | PH.D. THESIS | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 130.0 |
Course ContentProgram of research leading to Ph.D. degree arranged between student and a faculty member. Students register to this course in all semesters starting from the beginning of their second semester while the research program or write-up of thesis is in progress. | |||||
MATH606 | THE THEORY OF ALGEBRAS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentGeneralities on algebras over commutative rings. Group algebras. Morita duality and quasi-Frobenius algebras, Frobenius algebras. Polynomial identity algebras, Artin-Procesi Theorem. | |||||
MATH615 | LIE ALGEBRAS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentBasic Concepts, semisimple Lie Algebras, root systems, isomorphism and conjugacy theorems, existence theorem. | |||||
MATH677 | NUMERICAL METH. IN ORDINARY DIFF. EQU. | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentIntroduction to Numerical Methods, Linear multistep methods. Runge-Kutta methods, stiffness and theory of stability. Numerical methods for Hamiltonian systems, iteration and differential equations. | |||||
MATH688 | FINITE ELEMENT SOL. OF DIFF. EQUATIONS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCalculus of variations. Weighted residual methods. Theory and derivation of interpolation functions. Higher order elements. Assembly procedure, insertion of boundary conditions. Finite element formulation of ordinary differential equations, some applications. Error and convergence analysis. Finite element formulation of non-linear differential equations. Time dependent problems. Convergence and error analysis. Solution of the resulting algebraic system of equations. Applications on steady and time dependent problems in applied continuum mechanics. | |||||
MATH695 | GRADUATE SEMINAR IN MATHEMATICS I | 0 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 10.0 |
Course ContentPresentation involving current reserach given by Ph.D. students of invited speakers. | |||||
MATH696 | GRADUATE SEMINAR IN MATHEMATICS II | 0 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 10.0 |
Course ContentPresentation involving current research given by Ph.D. students of invited speakers. | |||||
MATH701 | HOMOTOPY THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH703 | LOCALLY FINITE GROUPS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH707 | INTRODUCTION TO OPERATOR THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH708 | ADVANCED LINEAR ALGEBRA | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH709 | GENERAL TOPOLOGY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH710 | LOW DIMENSIONAL TOPOLOGY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH711 | IMPULSIVE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS(IDE) | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH712 | LARGE CARD. AND COMBI.PRIN.IN SET THEO. | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH713 | GEOMETRIC GROUP THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH715 | FINITARY LINEAR GROUPS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH717 | ALGEBRAIC FUNCTION FIELDS AND CODES | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH719 | TOPICS IN COMPLEX ANALYSIS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH720 | SEMIGROUP THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH722 | ZETA FUNC.AND L-FUNC.OF ALGEB.FUNC.FIEL | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH723 | INT.TO DELAY DIFF.EQUATIONS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH724 | STOCHASTIC CAL.AND APP.TO FINANCE | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH728 | HOMOLOGICAL METHODS IN TOPOLOGY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentFor course details, see https://catalog2.metu.edu.tr. | |||||
MATH730 | ALGEBRAIC SURFACES | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentALGEBRAIC SURFACES | |||||
MATH731 | POLYNOMIAL COMPLETENESS IN ALGEB.SYS. | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH732 | RIEMANN SURFACES | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH734 | LINEAR TOPOLOGICAL SPACES | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH736 | BASIC MODEL THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH737 | VECTOR BUNDLES AND CHARACTERIST.CLASSES | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH738 | CODING THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCODING THEORY | |||||
MATH741 | ANALYTIC FUNCTION SPACES AND THEIR OPERATORS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH743 | LINEAR ALGEBRAIC GROUPS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH745 | METHODS OF BIFURCATION THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH746 | STABILITY THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH747 | TOPICS IN ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentFor course details, see https://catalog2.metu.edu.tr. | |||||
MATH748 | SYMPLECTIC TOPOLOGY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentDarboux-Moser-Weinstein theorems, J-holomorphic curves. Symplectic camel and capacities. Symplectization and contactization. Arnold Liouville theorem and Hamiltonian equations. moment map and symplectic reduction. Kaehler manifolds and toric manifolds. | |||||
MATH750 | INVERSE STURM-LIOUVILLE PROBLEMS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentSturm-Liouville operators on a finite interval; the Dirichlet problem; the inverse Dirichlet problem; Uniqueness theorems; the Gelfand-Levitan method; isospectral sets. | |||||
MATH751 | KAHLER MANIFOLDS AND HODGE THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentBrief review of complex manifolds, holomorphic vector bundles, connections, Chern classes. Harmonic forms, elliptic differential operators, main existence and uniqueness results. Harmonic forms applied to Kahler manifolds: Hodge decomposition, Lefschetz decomposition, Hodge Index Theorem. Applications to the topology of algebraic varieties. | |||||
MATH753 | BOUND.&FINITE ELEMENTS COUP.THE.& APP.TO FLUID DYNAMICS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentAdvance theory of boundary element method and finite elemnt methods. Fundamental solutions of partial differential equations governing fluid dynamics problems. Use of both of the methods in coupled form for solving the same problem especially in irregular regions. Computer implementations. | |||||
MATH754 | SIMPLE GROUPS OF LIE TYPE I | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentWeyl groups, Simple Lie Algebras, Chavalley Groups, Unipotent Subgroups, Diagonal and Monomial Subgroups, Relations Involving Generators of a Chevalley Group, Bruhat Decomposition, Automorphisms in Chevalley Groups. | |||||
MATH755 | SIMPLE GROUPS OF LIE TYPE II | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentTwisted simple groups, Associated Geometrical Structures, Sporadic simple groups. | |||||
MATH758 | ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS OF OPERATOR SEMIGROUPS II | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentOrdered Banach Spaces, Compressing of constrictors for positive semigroup, Asymptotic domination for semigroups, Positive semigroups in Banach Lattices, Geometry of Banach Lattices and asymptotic properties of semigroups. | |||||
MATH759 | INTRODUCTION TO CHAOTIC DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentMapping and Orbits. Periodic orbits, Linear mappings. Differentiable mappings. Hyberbolicity. Family of mappings Bifurcations. The quadratic map, Symbolic dynamics. Ingredients of chaos: Sensitivity, Dense orbits and transitivity. Schwarzian derivatives, Wiggly iterates. Cantor set and chaos. Higher dimensional dynamics: linear maps. The horseshoe map. Various routes to chaos. | |||||
MATH760 | REPRESENTATION THEORY OF FINITE GROUPS II | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentChanging The Field, The Schur Index, Projective Representations, Character Degrees, Character Correspondence, Linear Groups, Changing The Characteristics. | |||||
MATH765 | BUILDINGS AND CLASSICAL GROUPS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentLinear reflection groups; affine reflection groups. Coxeter groups; Coxeter complexes. Spherical buildings; groups with a BN-pair. Classical groups. | |||||
MATH766 | ADAPTIVE FINITE ELEMENTS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentCourses not listed in catalogue. Contents vary from year to year according to interest of students and instructor in charge. Typical contents include contemporary developments in Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Applied Mathematics. | |||||
MATH767 | ALGEBRAIC CURVES OVER A FINITE FIELD | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentAlgebraic Geometric and Function Field view of Curves over a finite field; Application of this to Coding Theory and other areas. | |||||
MATH768 | THEORY OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS | 8 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 3.0 |
Course ContentFlows and cascades. Limit sets and compact motions. Recurrence. Minimal sets. Attractors. Poisson stability. Quasi-minimal sets and chaos. Central motions. Almost periodic motions. Lyapunov stability. Birkhoff`s ergodic theorem. Studying chaos with densities. Asymptotic properties of densities. Semi-flows. | |||||
MATH769 | AN INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTATIONAL GROUP THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentA short introduction to GAP, Group actions, Orbits and stabilizers, Stabilizer chains and their computation, The Schreier-Sims algorithm, Backtrack, Natural actions and decompositions, Primitive groups, Computing a composition series, Factor groups, Conjugacy classes, Complements, Subgroups, Maximal subgroups. | |||||
MATH771 | HOMOLOGICAL ALGEBRA | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.0 |
Course ContentCategories, functors, derived functors, extensions, resolutions, homology and cohomology of complexes. Some applications depending on the consent of the instructor such as modular representation theory or cohomology of groups or Lie algebras, algenraic topology. | |||||
MATH772 | ALGEBRAIC GRAPH THEORY I | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentBasics of graph and group theory, orbitals and rank, graphs admitting a given group, primitivity and double transitivity, eigenvalues of graphs, automorphisms of graphs, vertex transitive and edge transitive graphs, graph homomorphisms, retracts, Cayley graphs, quotient graphs and primitivity, strongly regular graphs. | |||||
MATH773 | GROUPS AND GRAPHS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCayley graph of a group, Generating graph of a group, Intersection graph of a group, Commuting graph of a group, Graphs associated to a set of integers arising from the structure of a given group (character degree graphs, conjugacy class graphs, Grünberg-Kegel graphs), Characterization of Grünberg-Kegel graphs of solvable groups. | |||||
MATH774 | POLYNOMIAL METHODS IN COMBINATORICS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentPolynomial methods in error-correcting codes, Bezouts theorem, incidence geometry, ruled surfaces, polynomial method in differential geometry, Kakeya problem, Harmonic analysis, polynomial method in number theory. | |||||
MATH776 | COHERENT SHEAVES IN ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentSemi-stability, stability, Harder-Narasimhan filtration. Families of sheaves, moduli spaces. Construction methods. The derived category of the abelian category of coherent sheaves. Quiver representations and the Bondal correspondance with the derived category of the abelian category of coherent sheaves. | |||||
MATH777 | MODULI SPACES OF CURVES | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentUnderstanding the behavior of families of algebraic curves is of central interest in many branches of mathematics, including algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, low dimensional topology, as well as certain branches of theoretical physics such as string theory and various gauge theories. Moduli spaces of algebraic curves are among the standard tools for researchers working in these areas. The course aims to cover the essentials of the subject and bring the students to a position so that they can access the modern literature. | |||||
MATH779 | SET THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentReview of ordinals, cardinals, transfinite induction and recursion. Basics of infinitary combinatorics, Suslin s hypothesis and trees, the diamond principle,Martin s axiom and their consequences. Models of set theory, relative consistency, absoluteness and reflection. Gödel s constructible universe and the axiom of constructibility. Forcing and its general theory, the forcing theorems. The relative consistency of CH, CH and other applications of forcing. | |||||
MATH781 | ALGORITHMIC NUMBER THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentFundamental number-theoretic algorithms. The Euclidean algorithm and the greatest common divisor. Computations modulo n. Computations in finite fields. Algorithms on polynomials. A survey of algorithms for linear algebra. Algorithms for algebraic number theory. Factoring algorithms.Primality tests. | |||||
MATH782 | DESCRİPTİVE SET THEORY | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentTopological preliminaries. Polish spaces, compact metric spaces, zero-dimensional spaces and Baire category methods. Measurable spaces and standard Borel spaces. Borel hierarchy, Borel sets and their regularity properties, and the Borel isomorphism theorem. Projective sets, analytic and coanalytic sets, and their regularity properties. Separation theorems. Polish groups. Selected topics: Borel determinacy, various uniformization theorems, theory of Borel equivalence relations etc. | |||||
MATH783 | POINT LATTICES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentThe definition of a lattice, lattice basis, fundamental region, lattice scaling, lattice cosets, lattice determinant, minimum distance, Minkowski and Blichfeldt theorems, successive minima, dual lattice, shortest vector problem, closest vector problem, covering radius, lattice reduction algoritms, lattice-based cryptosystems with attacks. | |||||
MATH799 | ORIENTATION GRADUATE SEMINARS | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.0 |
Course ContentThis course is constructed from seminars that will be organised by Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences. The seminars will cover technical, cultural, social and educational issues to prepare the graduate students following the PhD programs. | |||||