This specialised degree provides this mastery and also gives students the opportunity to gain deep understanding of abstract algebra, complex analysis, discrete mathematics, ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations, depending on their interests and subject choices.
Type: undergraduate degree
Duration: 3 years part time
Compulsory Subjects
First year subjects:
- Pre-calculus Mathematics
- Calculus
- Linear algebra
- Comprehension skills for science
- End-user Computing
Second year subjects:
- Linear algebra
- Real analysis
- Introduction to discrete mathematics
- Calculus in higher dimensions
- Differential equations
- Applied dynamical systems
- Computer algebra
Third year subjects:
- Linear algebra
- Algebra
- Complex analysis
- Ordinary differential equations
- Discrete mathematics: Combinatorics
- Metric spaces and the Lebesgue integral
- Partial differential equations
Careers: statistical analyst, mathematics teacher, mathematician.
Source: www.unisa.ac.za