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Sample Course Descriptions Document

When submitting applications to our department's graduate programs it is helpful if you provide us with a table of all the mathematics related courses that you have taken. A sample table is below. It is very helpful for us to know the textbooks used and to have a course description. 

You may prepare this table as a Word document or a PDF and upload it to the graduate application system.

 

Course Title Number Institution and Year Taken Textbook(s) Used Course Description Grade
Dynamical Systems MST 792

Wake Forest, 2022

Differential Dynamical Systems

J.D. Meiss

Introduction to
modern theory of
dynamical systems
including: linear
and nonlinear
autonomous
differential
equations,
invariant sets,
closed orbits,
Poincare maps,
structural stability,
center manifolds,
normal forms, local
bifurcations of
equilibria, linear
and non-linear
maps, hyperbolic
sets, attractors,
symbolic
representation,
fractal dimensions,
and Hamiltonian
Dynamics
Currently registered
Abstract Algebra MST 721 Wake Forest, 2021 Algebra: Chapter Zero, Aluffi The following were
studied with a
focus on
categorical
foundations:
Groups, rings,
fields, extensions,
Euclidean
domains,
polynomials,
vector spaces. 
A
Real Analysis MST 711 Wake Forest, 2021 A Second Coures in Real Analysis, Raynor and Robinson Elements of
Functional Analysis
including: Metric
Spaces, The
Contraction Mapping
Theorem, Normed
Linear Spaces,
Completion of a
Metric Space,
Function Spaces,
Compact
Embeddings, Rellich Kondrachov, Calculus
on Normed Linear
Spaces, Frechet
Differentiability, and
The Inverse and
Implicit Function theorems
A
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