38 courses with the subject MATH, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Introduction for the non-specialist to mathematical modeling of real-world phenomena such as voting and networks, using graph theory, probability, and other accessible tools.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Exploration of algebraic, exponential, logarithmic and trigonometric functions. Review and use of tools from differential calculus, including limits, to better understand those function classes. Emphasis on modeling and problem-solving techniques. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Both Fall and Spring,TLC Tutoring Course; Lecture hours:3Elementary calculus and applications taken primarily from economics. Topics include algebraic, exponential, and logarithmic functions, graphs, limits, regular and partial derivatives, constrained optimization, and integration. Not open to students who have MATH 201 credit.
Offered Both Fall and Spring,TLC Tutoring Course; Lecture hours:4An introduction to the calculus of algebraic, trigonometric and transcendental functions. Interpretation, significance and calculations of derivatives. Applications to geometry, biology, physics, economics, and other subjects. Introduction to the integral, including the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus and substitution. Not open to students who have MATH 192 credit.
Offered Both Fall and Spring,TLC Tutoring Course; Lecture hours:4Methods of integration including integration by parts, numerical approximations, and improper integrals. Sequences and series, including Taylor series. Polar coordinates, parametric functions, differential equations, and applications. Prerequisite: MATH 201.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3,Lab:1.5An investigation of number, numeration, and operations from the perspective of elementary school teachers and pupils. Open only to B.S. in Education Early Childhood students. Required fieldwork.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3,Other:1.5Investigation of geometric, probabilistic, and statistical concepts related to elementary mathematics and how children learn and make sense of these concepts. Required fieldwork. Prerequisites: MATH 203 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3,Other:1.5Investigation into the components of effective secondary school mathematics instruction, including lesson design/ implementation (curriculum, tasks, discourse, and assessment). Required fieldwork. Prerequisite: EDUC 102 or EDUC 201 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3An exploration of topics from pure mathematics, applied mathematics and statistics, illustrating the power and beauty of mathematical reasoning. For students considering a major in mathematics. Prerequisite or concurrent enrollment in MATH 201 or MATH 202 or MATH 211 or MATH 212 or STAT 216. Open to first-year students only.
Offered Both Fall and Spring,TLC Tutoring Course; Lecture hours:4Calculus of vector-valued functions and functions of several variables. Multiple, line, and surface integrals; applications, and extrema. Green's, Stokes' and Divergence Theorems. Prerequisite: MATH 202.
Offered Both Fall and Spring,TLC Tutoring Course; Lecture hours:3Basic methods of solving ordinary differential equations. Systems of linear differential equations, Laplace transform, applications and selected topics. Prerequisite: MATH 211. Not open to students who have taken MATH 222.
Offered Occasionally,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies; Repeatable Topics such as financial mathematics, mathematical biology, cryptography, social networks, etc. Topic varies by semester. Prerequisite: varies by topic.
TLC Tutoring Course,Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3First order differential equations, second order linear equations, higher order linear equations, numerical approximations. Prerequisite: MATH 211. Open only to civil engineering and environmental engineering students. Not open to students who have MATH 212 credit.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Counting techniques and traversal problems. Students join MATH 241 mid-semester. Pre- or co-requisite: MATH 280. Only for computer science students or students seeking secondary certification. Not open to students who have taken MATH 340.
TLC Tutoring Course,Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Logic, sets; mathematical induction; relations, functions; combinatorics and graph theory. Not open to students with MATH 240 or MATH 280 credit. Prerequisite: MATH 202.
Offered Both Fall and Spring,TLC Tutoring Course; Lecture hours:3Linear equations, matrices, vector spaces, linear transformations, eigenvalues, inner products, Gram-Schmidt algorithm, singular value decomposition. Prerequisite: MATH 202.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3Logic, sets; proof techniques; relations, functions, sequences and convergence; cardinality. Skills and tools for independent reading, problem solving and exploration. Not open to students with MATH 241 credit. Prerequisite: MATH 211 or MATH 245.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies; RepeatableReadings and research in special topics at an intermediate level. Prerequisites: permission of the instructor, adviser, and department chair.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3Elementary probability, random variables, moments, central limit theorem, conditional expectation, statistical distributions derived from the normal distribution. History of the development of Probability. Probability simulations and applications from various fields. Prerequisite: MATH 211.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3Real numbers and elementary topology of Cartesian spaces, convergence, continuity, and differentiation. Prerequisites: MATH 211, MATH 245, and MATH 280.
Offered Alternate Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Classical number theory in an algebraic setting. Topics include unique factorization, diophantine equations, and linear and quadratic congruences. Advanced topics from algebraic or analytic number theory. Prerequisites: MATH 245 and either MATH 241 or MATH 280 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Alternate Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableSpecial topics, to be selected from algebra, analysis, geometry, statistics, applied mathematics, etc. Prerequisite varies by topic.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Groups and rings; homomorphisms, isomorphism theorems. Additional selected topics. Prerequisites: MATH 245 and MATH 280.
Offered Alternating Fall Semester; Lecture hours:3Topological spaces, connectedness, compactness, continuity, separation, and countability axioms. Metric, product, function, and uniform spaces. Prerequisites: MATH 211 and MATH 280, or permission of the instructor.
Offered Alternating Fall Semester; Lecture hours:3Historical and axiomatic foundations of geometry. Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries. Prerequisite: MATH 280 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Alternating Spring Semester; Lecture hours:3An introduction to combinatorics and graph theory. Topics include counting techniques, permutations, binomial coefficients, partitions, generating functions, graph traversal, spanning trees, matching theory, planar graphs; additional selected topics. Prerequisite: MATH 280 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Alternating Spring Semester,Topics course; Lecture hours:3Possible topics include industrial mathematics, financial mathematics, genetic algorithms, simulations, and network analysis. Will also include applications to economics and the writing and presenting of a project. Prerequisites: CSCI 203, MATH 245, and MATH 303 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3,Lab:2Floating point arithmetic, development of computational algorithms and error estimates for root approximation, interpolation and approximation by polynomials, numerical differentiation and integration, cubic splines, least-squares, linear systems. Lab component. Prerequisites: Two of (MATH 211, MATH 241, MATH 245, MATH 280) and (CSCI 203 or CSCI 204). Crosslisted as MATH 643.
Offered Alternate Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Rigorous treatment of linear algebra, including vector spaces, linear independence, span, basis, linear maps, matrices, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, inner products, the spectral theorem (complex and real). Additional topics may include: singular value decomposition, Jordan canonical form, various applications. Prerequisites: MATH 245 and either MATH 280 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Alternate Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) including the heat equation, wave equation, and Laplace's equation; existence and uniqueness of solutions to PDEs via the maximum principle and energy methods; method of characteristics; Fourier series and integral transforms; separation of variables; Sturm-Liouville theory and orthogonal expansions. Prerequisites: junior or senior status; MATH 212.
Offered Fall Semester Only,Topics course; Lecture hours:3Mathematical techniques in operations research. Stochastic processes and mathematical optimization. Topics may include Markov chains, queueing theory, simulation, linear programming, non-linear programming, integer programming, network optimization. Methods and applications drawn from various fields. Prerequisite: MATH 227 or STAT 227 or MATH 303 or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as MATH 658.
Offered Alternating Spring Semester; Lecture hours:3Limits, analytic functions, integrals including contour integrals. Cauchy's Integral Theorem, entire functions and singularities. Prerequisites: MATH 211 and MATH 280, or permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:2; RepeatableSeminar based on topics from algebra, analysis, topology, differential equations, statistics, or applied mathematics; topics selected according to demand or interest. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies; RepeatableReading and research in various topics for qualified undergraduate students. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Alternate Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Continuation of MATH 308. Integration theory and advanced topics in analysis. Prerequisite: MATH 308.
Offered Alternate Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3A survey of mathematical models grounded in differential equations and methods used to analyze the behavior of their solutions. Topics may include dynamical systems, asymptotics, perturbation methods, variational methods, numerical methods and scientific computing. Prerequisites: MATH 212 and MATH 308 or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as MATH 616.
Offered Alternate Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Continuation of MATH 320. Advanced topics in group theory including solvable groups, field theory and Galois theory. Prerequisite: MATH 320.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies; RepeatableReading and research in various topics for qualified undergraduates or graduate students at a level appropriate for a Culminating Experience. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor, adviser, and department chair.
Source: Bucknell University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
