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| Mathematics |
| Financial Mathematics |
The Mathematics studied at MMU is geared towards solving real world problems in many fields, for example, marketing and finance, communication networks, computer graphics and modelling, image processing and engineering. We provide a wide range of units and offer considerable choice to our students, allowing subject specialisation in the final year.
The Department has brand new state-of-the-art computer laboratories offering specialist software packages such as Mathcad, MATLAB, Minitab and SPSS. Many of the staff are actively engaged in research and consequently there are a number of research fellows, research assistants and postgraduate students. The mathematical modelling of water waves is an important area of research within the Department and there are ongoing projects to simulate overtopping of sea wall defences and wave energy devices. Research is also carried out in artificial intelligence, nonlinear dynamics (chaos and fractals) and computational astrochemistry.
During your first year you will be given a broad grounding in Mathematics topics such as calculus, linear algebra, statistics, operational research, discrete mathematics, learning and employability and maths on the computer. The subjects you study in this year are fixed and so there is little flexibility in what you study.
However, in the second and final years you will have a free choice from a wide range of Mathematics units, so you will be able to design your study programme to reflect your interests and career aspirations.
As well as being an expert mathematician you will also have the knowledge of the most extensively used Mathematics and Statistics packages in the world, namely MATLAB and SPSS. All of our final year students do a project - which demonstrates to potential employers all of your abilities.
We have excellent teaching staff. In the 2007 National Student Survey, Mathematics at MMU was ranked 2nd in the country for overall satisfaction amongst our students.
The Department is also involved in a great deal of research, adding to the resources and knowledge you can benefit from. This also helps to ensure that your teaching remains up-to-date in the latest developments in Mathematics.
The degree is geared towards solving real world problems with the aid of mathematical packages such as MATLAB and SPSS. This makes our graduates highly employable and able to tackle real-world problems.