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Mathematics

MSc

Part Time, Full Time

| Admissions status: Open

PURPOSE

For Mathematics graduates. Provides basic training for a research degree.

DESCRIPTION

Our programme consists of a wide range of courses and a project. The coursework is organised on a module system. A supervisor assists each student in choosing modules, taking a majority from the two main blocks of Pure Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. You may also choose certain courses from the Financial Mathematics programme.

Pure Mathematics:

Basic analysis
Fourier analysis
Operator theory
Lie groups & Lie algebras
Manifolds
Modular forms
Algebraic Geometry

Theoretical Physics:

Quantum mechanics II
Quantum field theory
String theory and Branes
Supersymmetry & gauge theory
Advanced general relativity.

You may also take up to two courses from a wide range of undergraduate topics, eg Real analysis II; Complex analysis; Galois theory; Topology; Logic; Special relativity and electromagnetism; Linear systems with control theory.

You may also take courses at other London colleges subject to approval.

KEY FACTS

Programme leader/s

Professor Yuri Safarov

Awarding institution

King's College London

Credit value (UK/ECTS equivalent)

UK 180/ECTS 90

Duration

One year FT, two years PT, September to September.

Location

Strand Campus.

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