33 courses in the 1992–93 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
PMATH 330Introduction to Mathematical Logic 1F,W,S 3C 0.5
A broad introduction to Mathematical Logic. The logic of sentences: truthfunctions and axiomatic approaches (eg. Natural Deduction and Gentzen sequences). A brief introduction to the logic of predicates and to the foundations of mathematics.
This course will be of interest to all math students.
Topology of R®, continuity, norms, metrics, completeness, Fourier series, and applications, for example, to ordinary differential equations, the heat problem, optimal approximation, the isoperimetric inequality.
Complex numbers; continuity, differentiability, analyticity of functions; the Cauchy- Riemann equations; solution of Laplace's equation; conformal mapping by elementary functions, and applications; contour integration, the Cauchy and allied theorems; Taylor and Laurent expansions, uniform convergence and power series; the residue calculus, and applications. Prereq: MATH 237 Antireq: MATH PMATH 352 Cross-listed as AM 332 Not available for credit to students in Honours Pure Mathematics programs.
PMATH 334Introduction to Rings and FieldsF,W,S 3C 0.5
Rings, ideais, factor rings, homomorphisms, finite and infinite fields, polynomials and roots, field extensions, algebraic numbers, and applications, for example, to Latin squares, finite geometries, geometrical constructions, error-correcting codes.
An elementary approach to the theory of numbers; the Euclidean algorithm, congruence equations, multiplicative functions, solutions to Diophantine equations, continued fractions, and rational approximations to real numbers.
Groups: examples of groups, permutation groups, groups of low order, homomorphisms, subgroups and normal subgroups, factor groups, Lagrange’s theorem, Cayley's theorem, Abelian groups, direct products, the structure of finitely generated Abelian groups, applications.
Rings: ideals, quotient rings, homomorphisms, domains, primes, maximal ideals and fields, field of fractions, Euclidean domains, principal ideal domains, unique factorization, polynomial extensions of unique factorization domains, applications.
Field theory, examples of fields, field of fractions, algebraic extensions, construction of roots, separable extensions, splitting fields, classification of finite fields. Finite non-Abelian groups, Sylow theorems. Introduction to Galois theory.
Metric spaces, compactness, completeness, continuity, convergence, integration, function spaces. Prereq: MATH 237, or consent of instructor Antireg: AM 331, PMATH 331PMATH 351 may be substituted for AM/PMATH 331 whenever this is a requirement in an Honours program.
Fourier analysis: A descriptive introduction to L, spaces, inner products and Hilbert spaces, Fourier series on the circie, convergence theorems, the Fourier transform. Other topics: The heat equation, the Dirichlet problem on the disk, approximation theory and orthogonal polynomials. Prereq: PMATH 351 or AM/PMATH 331 with consent of instructor
An introduction to affine, projective and non-Euclidean forms of geometry. Conic sections in the projective plane. Inversion in circles. Theorems of Desargues, Pappus, and Pascal.
PMATH 365Elementary Differential Geometry and Tensor AnalysisF,S 3C 0.5
Curves in Euclidean 3-space (E%) and the Serret-Frenet formulae; surfaces in E? and their intrinsic geometry, Gaussian curvature and the Gauss-Bonnet theorem.
Coordinate transformations and tensors in”
n-dimensions; n-dimensional Riemannian
spaces, covariant differentiation.
geodesics, the curvature, Ricci and
Einstein tensors. Applications of tensors in
Relativity and Continuum Mechanics. Prereq: AM 231 or consent of instructor Cross-listed as AM 333
PMATH 380AIntroduction to Information TheoryF,S 3C 0.5
Variable length coding. The Shannon entropy as a measure of uncertainty and expected information. Minimal average length coding; the Shannon entropy as tower bound. Source entropy. Channels. Transinformation. Capacity. Applications to problem solving, information transmission, logics, science, linguistics and communications (TV, music, etc.). Determination of practical measures of information.
PMATH 380BApplications of Information TheoryW 3C 0.5
Measures of information: probabilistic, mixed, and nonprobabilistic. Measures of uncertainty (entropies). Entropies for continuous random variables. The maximum entropy principle and its applications to: statistical mechanics, optimal discretization, and quantization of random variables, image representation and pattern recognition. Applications to questionnaires. Optimal questionnaires.
An introduction to elementary and analytic number theory; primitive roots, law of quadratic reciprocity, Gaussian sums, Riemann zeta-function, distribution of prime numbers. Prereq: AM/PMATH 332 or PMATH 352 Antireq: PMATH 340 Next offered in Winter 1994, and each alternate Winter thereafter.
An introduction to algebraic number theory; unique factorization, Dedekind domains, class numbers, Dirichlet’s unit theorem, solutions of Diophantine equations, Fermat's ‘last theorem’. Prereq: PMATH 334 or 344 Next offered in Winter 1993, and each alternate Winter thereafter.
Continuation of linear algebra. Main topics: representations of endomorphisms, structure of bilinear forms, multilinear products. Prereq: MATH 235 Not offered every year
Prime ideals, Krull dimension, integral elements, localization, discrete valuations, Dedekind domains, Noetherian domains. Algebraic and transcendental field extensions, algebraic closure. Introduction to algebraic geometry.
Lebesgue measure and integral for the teal line, general measure and integration theory, convergence theorems, Fubini's theorem, absolute continuity, Radon- Nikodym theorem, LP-spaces. Prereq: AM/PMATH 331 or PMATH 351 Cross-listed as AM 431
The Riemann mapping theorem and several topics such as analytic continuation, _ harmonic functions, elliptic functions, entire functions, univalent functions, special functions.
Some global aspects of surface theory, the Euler-Poincaré characteristic, the global interpretation of Gaussian curvature via the Gauss-Bonnet formula. Submanifolds of E9, induced Riemannian metrics, extrinsic and intrinsic curvatures, Gauss- Codazzi equations. Local Lie groups of transformations on R®, infinitesimal generators, the Lie derivative. An introduction to differentiable manifolds, the tangent and cotangent bundles, affine connections and the Riemann curvature tensor. The above topics will be illustrated by applications to continuum mechanics and mathematical physics.