Course outline

MAM4100W and MAM4110W (Extended Honours in Pure Mathematics) is the equivalent to MAM4000W. It is a two year structured course designed to provide an introduction to some topics in pure mathematics that are basic to a professional mathematician. The course is made up of a number of modules and a compulsory project, each of which is worth a certain number of credits. You must accumulate at least 160 credits, as per the table below:

Extended Honours in Mathematics (MAM4100W and MAM4110W)

  1st Semester  2nd Semester
Year 1  2 core modules (20 credits each)  2 other modules (usually 20 credits each)
Year 2

 1 core modules (20 credits) and       1 other module (usually 20  credits)

 Project (40 credits)
             Total   ≥ 160 credits
  • You can take more than 160 credits of modules. If you do, your mark for MAM4100W and MAM4110W will (more or less; see below for the details) be calculated using your "best 160 credits".
  • Most modules are 30 lectures.
  • The lecture timetable for all of the Honours modules is decided at a meeting on the first day of class.

All Mathematics and Applied Mathematics Honours Students are required to tutor in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics.

Designing your curriculum

All curricula must be approved by the Honours Program Convenor. It is particularly important to consult the Convenor if you are thinking of taking a reading module, modules in other departments, or considering whether you might be allowed to take an undergraduate module as part of your Honours degree.

The following core, elective, and DMTCS modules will be offered in 2024.

1st Semester 2nd Semester
   
Algebra [core] Dr Tamar Janelidze-Gray
 

Analys II

Dr Francois Ebobisse
Analysis [core]

Associate Prof Elena Berdysheva

Homological Algebra

Dr Tamar Janelidze-Gray

Topology [core]

Dr Yanga Bavuma

Special Topics in Topology

Dr Francesco Russo 

Differential Geometry [core]

Dr Shajid Haque 

Computer Algebra
Missing include.
Category Theory

Professor George Janelidze

Lie Algebras

Morgan Vandeyar 

DMTCS1 (Complexity Theory)
Dr Holger Spakowski
DMTCS2 (Graph Theory)

Dr Imran Allie

   
 
 
       

The Applied Mathematics that will be offered in 2024 are listed here.

How we calculate your final mark

  • If you do more than the minimum of 160 credits, we'll calculate your final mark for MAM4100W and MAM4110W using your "best 160 credits". However, your final mark must include:
    • The marks for at least three Mathematics Core Modules.
    • The mark for your Project. 
  • The Project mark counts 25% of your final MAM4100W and MAM4101W mark.
  • In some of your modules, the final mark is a combination of a class mark (assignments, tests, etc) and your exam mark. How much each counts towards your final mark for a module varies. On average, however, your exam marks for your modules must count at least 50% of the final mark for the course excluding the Project.
  • If you do only three core modules, then the marks for those three count 37.5% of your final mark for MAM4100W and MAM4110W. If you do all four, the best three core module marks count; for the purposes of calculating your final mark, the fourth module is then counted as an elective (and so counts if the mark is high enough relative to your other marks).
  • The remaining 37.5% of the final mark is calculated using your best marks in your other modules.