Course summary

Explore the topics across pure and applied mathematics that are most important to you and build the foundations for a successful career. Course description Our Mathematics MSc gives you the freedom to choose from a variety of advanced lecture modules across pure and applied mathematics. From algebra, geometry and topology, to the ways that mathematics can be used in finance or studies of nature, our flexible one-year course is designed to help you build the foundations for a successful career. Throughout our Mathematics MSc, you’ll have opportunities to improve your problem solving and presentation skills, and learn how to create persuasive and logical arguments. You'll develop your understanding of the areas you're most interested in through our individually tailored, directed reading module. Our informal specialist lectures, which have smaller class sizes, allow you to have closer interactions with staff and students. You'll also be supported through regular meetings with your academic supervisor. You'll gain valuable mathematics research experience by working with an experienced mathematician on a dissertation topic of your choice. Recent topics include:

• Goedel’s Incompleteness Theorem

• Geometry of groups, Amenability and the Banach-Tarski paradox

• Synchronised Chaos

• Analysis of stochastic differential equations