34 courses in the 1993–94 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
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HONOURS SEMINARS
Consult departmental listings for topics and prerequisites for 1993-94. Open to third and fourth year Honours Psychology or Make-Up Psychology students, or by consent of the instructor.
PMATH 330Introduction to Mathematical Logic 1F,W,S 3C 0.5
A broad introduction to Mathematical Logic. The logic of sentences: truth-functions 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.
PMATH 334Introduction to Rings and FleldsW,S 3C 0.5
Rings, ideals, 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, Euctidean 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.
Prereq:PMATH 343 or 336 with consent of instructor
Metric spaces, compactness, completeness, continuity, convergence, integration, function spaces. Prereq: MATH 237, or consent of instructor Antireq: 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 circle, 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 Analysis Curves in Euclidean 3-space (E%) and theF,S 3C 0.5
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
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 theoty; unique factorization, Dedekind domains, class numbers, Dirichlet’s unit theorem, solutions of Diophantine equations, Fermat's ‘last theorem’.
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 9, induced Riemannian metrics, extrinsic and intrinsic curvatures, Gauss- Codazzi equations. Loca! 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.