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Math Minor

Math Minor Description (effective Spring 2018):

The minor in mathematics provides students with a background in the various theories and uses of mathematics. The minor requires the completion of an intermediate calculus course (MTH 3006 or MTH 3010 or MTH 3020 or MTH 3030 or MTH 3050), and two 3- or 4- or 5- credit upper-level mathematics courses, one of which must be a capstone course. Please see below for important restrictions.

  • The following courses are not applicable to the mathematics minor: MTH 4005, MTH 4009, MTH 4119, and MTH 4410.
  • Capstone courses for the Computer Science minor may not be used as a capstone for the Mathematics minor. Although these courses may be used as electives within the mathematics minor, none of these courses may be used to satisfy the mathematics capstone requirement: MTH 4230, MTH 4250, MTH 4300, MTH 4320, MTH 4325, MTH 4330, MTH 4350, MTH 4355, and MTH 4360.
  • This minor is not open to students majoring in actuarial science, financial mathematics, or statistics (BA).
Math Minor Program Requirements:
Required Course

All students must take one of the following courses:

MTH 3006 Elements of Calculus II 4 credits
MTH 3010 Calculus II 4 credits
MTH 3020 Calculus III 4 credits
MTH 3030 Elements of Calculus III 5 credits
MTH 3050 Calculus III and Vector Calculus 4 credits
Electives

Students must take any two other courses from the following list with at least one of the courses being a 4000-level or higher capstone course.

NOTES:

  • MTH 4005, MTH 4009, MTH 4119, and MTH 4110 are not applicable to the mathematics minor
  • None of these computer science related courses may be used to satisfy the capstone requirement: MTH 4230, MTH 4250, MTH 4300, MTH 4320, MTH 4325, MTH 4330, MTH 4350, MTH 4355, and MTH 4360
MTH 3020 Calculus III 4 credits
MTH 3030 Elements of Calculus III 5 credits
MTH 3050 Calculus III and Vector Calculus 4 credits
MTH 3120 Elementary Probability 3 credits
MTH 3150 Discrete Math: An Invitation to Computer Science 4 credits
MTH 3210 A First Course in Linear Algebra 3 credits
MTH 3300 Algorithms, Computers and Programming I 3 credits
MTH 4000 Bridge to Higher Mathematics 3 credits
MTH 4010 Mathematical Analysis I (formerly Advanced Calculus) 3 credits
MTH 4020 Advanced Calculus II 3 credits
MTH 4030 Topology 3 credits
MTH 4100 Linear Algebra and Matrix Methods 3 credits
MTH 4110 Ordinary Differential Equations 3 credits
MTH 4115 Numerical Methods for Differential Equations in Finance 4 credits
MTH 4120 Introduction to Probability 4 credits
MTH 4125 Introduction to Stochastic Process 4 credits
MTH 4130 Mathematics of Data Analysis (formerly Mathematics of Statistics) 4 credits
MTH 4135 Computational Methods in Probability 3 credits
MTH 4140 Graph Theory 3 credits
MTH 4145 Mathematical Modeling * 3 credits
MTH 4150 Combinatorics 3 credits
MTH 4200 Theory of Numbers 3 credits
MTH 4210 Elements of Modern Algebra 3 credits
MTH 4220 Introduction to Modern Geometry 3 credits
MTH 4230 History of Mathematics 3 credits
MTH 4240 Differential Geometry * 3 credits
MTH 4250 Introduction to Cryptography 4 credits
MTH 4300 Algorithms, Computers and Programming II 3 credits
MTH 4310 Methods of Numerical Analysis 3 credits
MTH 4315 Introduction to Mathematical Logic 3 credits
MTH 4320 Data Structures and Algorithms (formerly Fundamental Algorithms) 4 credits
MTH 4325 Programming Languages 4 credits
MTH 4330 Introduction to Machine Learning 4 credits
MTH 4350 Computer Architecture 4 credits
MTH 4355 Operating Systems 4 credits
MTH 4360 Complexity and Computational Models 4 credits
MTH 4420 Actuarial Mathematics I 4 credits
MTH 4421 Actuarial Mathematics II 4 credits
MTH 4430 Mathematics of Inferential Statistics 4 credits
MTH 4451 Short-Term Insurance Mathematics 4 credits
MTH 4452 Short-Term Insurance Mathematics II 4 credits
MTH 4500 Introductory Financial Mathematics 4 credits
MTH 4600 Data Analysis and Simulation for Financial Engineers 4 credits
MTH 5010 Advanced Calculus III * 3 credits
MTH 5020 Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable 3 credits
MTH 5030 Theory of Functions of Real Variables* 3 credits
MTH 5100 Partial Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems* 4 credits
MTH 5500 Stochastic Calculus for Finance 4 credits
* These courses are offered infrequently, subject to student demand.