Undergraduates Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Applied Mathematics Specialisation

In the Applied Mathematics specialisation, students develop the principles and techniques that allow mathematicians to develop models of the world around us. Such models enable mathematicians to predict the changes in environmental, chemical and financial systems that will occur as inputs change.

In the first three semesters of your degree your program depends upon your studies and results at VCE level. In semesters 4 to 6 students do a common course.

 
≥38 in VCE Specialist Mathematics 3/4
27 to 39 in VCE Specialist Mathematics 3/4
≥25 in VCE Mathematical Methods 3/4 and no (or <27 in) Specialist Mathematics 3/4
Semester 1
Accelerated Mathematics 1(or Mathematics 1 in 2008)
Calculus 2
Calculus 1
Semester 2
Accelerated Mathematics 2(or Mathematics 2 in 2008)
Linear Algebra
Calculus 2
Linear Algebra** (see note)
Semester 3
Multivariable & Vector Calculus
Real Analysis with Applications
Real Analysis with Applications
Probability (optional subject)
Vector Calculus
Vector Calculus
Semester 4
Dynamical Systems and Chaos
Semester 5
Complex Analysis
at least two of

Graph Theory

Ordinary Differential Equations
Semester 6
Partial Differential Equations
Discrete Mathematics
Stochastic Modelling

Notes:
** It is recommended that Linear Algebra is completed either in Semester 2 of first year or in Summer Semester at the start of second year.

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