Lecture, three hours. Not open to freshmen. P/NP or letter grading. 1A. Introduction to accounting theory and practice. Recording, analyzing, and summarizing procedures used in preparing financial statements, asset side of balance sheet, current liabilities, payroll accounting. 1B. Requisite: course 1A. Partnership and corporation accounting, statement of cash flows, financial statement analysis, cost and managerial accounting.
Process and discipline of effective spoken presentations. Examination and application of classical and contemporary thinking on substance, structure, and delivery of messages. Elements of graphic presentation of data and presentation technology. Students design and deliver informative and persuasive presentations on key management issues. Critique of all efforts; certain efforts to be videotaped for review. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours. Not open to freshmen. Essentials of contracts, agency, partnerships, corporations, and other select areas of law in a business environment. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 120B. Comprehensive study of procedures used in verification of financial statements and related information, including ethical, legal, and other professional issues. Auditing of a complete set of financial statements. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 120B. Specialized accounting topics in business combinations, consolidated financial statements, branch accounting, leveraged buyouts, Securities and Exchange Commission, foreign currency transactions, translation of foreign financial statements, partnership ownership changes and liquidations, governmental accounting, and bankruptcy. P/NP or letter grading.
Requisite: course 120B. Recommended: course 122. Designed for seniors. Use of "Strategic Management,'' a computer program that simulates experience on a senior management team. Under real and sometimes adverse economic conditions, teams must make strategic and tactical decisions, evaluate performance results, and compete for key resources, market share, and business opportunities. Emphasis on theories of return on equity, product life cycles, product line margin analysis, issuing debt versus equity, and other topics that allow students to apply accounting principles learned in previous courses. P/NP or letter grading.
(Formerly numbered 127.) Requisite: course 1B. Study of fundamental income tax problems encountered by individuals and other entities in analyzing business, investment, employment, and personal decisions. Special emphasis on role of tax rules in capital transactions and decision making. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 1B. Recommended: course 127A. Study of tax issues arising in formation, operation, and termination of corporations and partnerships. Special emphasis on closely held enterprises, including S corporations. P/NP or letter grading.
Selected topics in public accounting, including mergers and acquisitions, public-company status and the going-public process, role of the partner, serving an entrepreneurial client, and fund accounting. Discussion of a case study of current interest in the accounting profession. Business plan preparation. P/NP or letter grading.
Discussion: three hours. Requisite: consent of instructor. Designed for juniors/seniors. Undergraduate individual investigation of selected research topic to be arranged with a faculty member. P/NP or letter grading.
Requisites: course 407, Mathematics 31B. Broad survey of deterministic models of decision sciences, including solution methods and applications management. Solution methods include linear programming, network optimization, integer programming, nonlinear programming, and dynamic programming. Application areas include corporate planning, finance, marketing, production and operations management, distribution, and project management. S/U or letter grading.
Requisites: course 212A, Mathematics 32A. Broad survey of nonlinear, time-staged, and probabilistic models for managerial decision making. Application areas include finance, marketing, facilities design, production, and energy systems. S/U or letter grading.
Requisites: courses 212A, 212B. In-depth reviews of actual decision sciences applications. Emphasis on professional skills needed for successful practical applications. S/U or letter grading.
Newly developing topics and viewpoints. Topics have included reliability and optimal maintenance theory, large-scale distribution/inventory systems, and Markovian decision processes under uncertainty. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading.
Lecture, one hour; discussion, three hours. Current issues and research on a variety of topics in general area of decision sciences. May be repeated for credit. In Progress and S/U grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 410. Business environment today is characterized by globalized operations, intense competition, rapid turnover in technology, and short product life cycles. Consequently, firms can no longer afford to operate in isolation. In many industries competition has moved from the firm level to the supply chain level. Provides understanding of strategic, tactical, and operational issues in supply chain management. S/U or letter grading.
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Intended for Ph.D. students who will be conducting research in consumer behavior or related areas. Empirical research in consumer behavior surveyed and critically evaluated from theoretical as well as practical perspectives.
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 404. Fundamental concepts and uses of information systems in organizations. Systems for intraorganizational and interorganizational transaction, coordination, and control. Information technology for reengineering of business processes. Analysis and evaluation of systems and their impacts. S/U or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 404. Systems for support of individual and group decision making and collaborative work. Expert and other knowledge-based systems and their applications. Fundamentals of human/computer interaction. S/U or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 404. Exploration of new state-of-the-art applications in information systems, such as in electronic commerce. Assessment of industrial opportunities and impacts. Topics vary from term to term. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 404. Computing and communication platform specification, configuration, sizing, and selection for business applications -- from hand-helds to workstations to mainframes. Open and proprietary architectures. Client/server. Comparative performance and cost analyses. Industry trends. S/U or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 404. Telecommunications technology. Design, implementation, and management of local and wide area networks for the firm. Security; protocols and standards; commercial value-added and public-access networks; Internet. Industry trends. S/U or letter grading.
Discussion, three hours. Requisite: course 404. Special topics in new and emergent technologies such as multimedia, digital imaging, object-oriented software, heterogeneous databases, and parallel processing. Assessment of industrial opportunities and impacts. Topics vary from term to term. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading.
Discussion, three hours. Methods and tools for information systems design, development, implementation, and maintenance. User requirements analysis. Design and specification of application software and databases. Classic and alternative approaches, such as rapid prototyping. System integration. Automated support. S/U or letter grading.
Discussion, three hours. Requisite: course 404. Managing information systems function within the enterprise. Role of chief information officer. Centralized and decentralized organizational designs. Outsourcing and other vendor relationships. Costing and pricing of services. Strategic planning. Management of information systems professionals. S/U or letter grading.
Discussion, three hours. Intended primarily for doctoral students. Examination in depth of problems or issues of current concern in information systems theory and practice. Topics vary from term to term. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading.
Discussion, three hours. Designed for doctoral students. New developments in information systems theory, practice, and empirical research. In-depth consideration of research designs and methods. Presentation of student work-in-progress. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading.
Discussion, two hours. Designed for doctoral students. Year-long sequence associated with Information Systems Colloquium Series. Regularly scheduled presentations of current research and state-of-the-art developments in information systems field. Study and discussion of research presented. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.
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Discussion, three hours. Identification, analysis, and resolution of managerial issues of policy and action within context of a multinational corporation, with emphasis on problems of adaptation to different sociological, cultural, legal, political, and economic environmental characteristics on planning, structuring of organizational relationships, and coordination and control in multinational firms. S/U or letter grading.
Comparative study of practice of management in selected foreign countries, as affected by their social environments and development of management theory. S/U or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 205A or 405. Analysis of changing economic, political, demographic, and sociocultural conditions in developing countries as they affect the business environment. Process of economic growth, market-oriented reforms, and creation of domestic capital markets. Inflation and stabilization programs, identification of business risks and opportunities, as well as tools needed to manage firms under these conditions. S/U or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours. Designed for graduate students. Introduction to information systems in organizations from perspective of general manager. Managerial and strategic uses of information systems, information technology that underlies these systems, and ways such systems are developed and managed. S/U or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours. Designed for graduate students. Personal computing in support of strategic analysis, decision making, and management communication. Use of personal productivity tools and network resources. Accessing publicly available information. Emphasis on hands-on exercises. S/U or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours. Designed for graduate students. New information technology for personal computing by managers. In-depth study of a specific new technology. Extensive hands-on assignments. S/U or letter grading.
Requisites: courses 402, 403, 405, 408, 411. Evaluation and formulation of organization's overall policies and strategies. Economic, heuristic, and social process approaches to policy formulation, environmental analysis, and organizational appraisal. Senior management's role in managing the policy process. S/U or letter grading.
(Formerly numbered 596N.) Lecture/language laboratory, 25 hours. Preparation: intermediate-level language proficiency determined by examination. Conducted in the target language. Ten-week overseas language program combining language study with lectures on history, culture, politics, and economy of the area. Sociocultural information, briefings on political economy of the area, guest speakers on international business issues, problem solving, corporate site visits, and standard language training, with emphasis on international business. S/U or letter grading.
Lecture/language laboratory, three hours. Preparation: intermediate-level language proficiency determined by examination. Three-term course on business practices employing a standard case study approach and including a major assignment incorporating oral and written reports and small group language tutorials gauged to individual student needs. In Progress grading.
(Formerly numbered 596N.) Requisite: consent of master's program director or Ph.D. program director by special petition. Directed individual study or research. May be repeated. S/U or letter grading.
(Formerly numbered 473.) Lecture, four hours every other week for 13 weeks. Macroanalytic issues, including intergroup relations, design and functioning of organizations, and relationships of organizations to their environment. S/U or letter grading.
Lecture, four hours every other week for 13 weeks. Development of a customer orientation as a necessity for success in the highly competitive global marketplace, including principles of customer orientation, information as a strategic asset, customer equity, market forecasting, measuring effects of marketing investments, and customer response-based strategy. S/U or letter grading.
Seminar, 90 minutes to three hours. Examination of selected problems and issues in an area of current concern in management. S/U or letter grading.
Seminar, two hours; outside study, four hours. Preparation: high school chemistry and physics. Not open to students with credit for course 14. Introduction to basic concepts of materials science and new materials vital to advanced technology. Microstructural analysis and various material properties discussed in conjunction with such applications as biomedical sensors, pollution control, and microelectronics.
Requisites: course 14, Chemical Engineering M105A or Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering M105A. Summary of thermodynamic laws, equilibrium criteria, solution thermodynamics, mass-action law, binary and ternary phase diagrams, glass transitions.
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Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours. Requisites: courses 14, 130. Introduction to ceramics and glasses being used as important materials of engineering, processing techniques, and unique properties. Examples of design and control of properties for certain specific applications in engineering.
(Formerly numbered 248B.) Lecture, three hours; outside study, nine hours. Designed for graduate engineering students. Deposition methods used in high-technology applications. Theory and experimental details of physical vapor deposition (PVD), chemical vapor deposition (CVD), plasma-assisted vapor deposition processes, plasma spray, electrodeposition. Applications in semiconductor, chemical, optical, mechanical, and metallurgical industries.
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Requisite: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 156B. Engineering and scientific aspects of crack nucleation, slow crack growth, and unstable fracture. Fracture mechanics, dislocation models, fatigue, fracture in reactive environments, alloy development, fracture-safe design.
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Requisite: course 143A or Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 156B. Elastic and plastic behavior of crystals, geometry, mechanics, and interaction of dislocations, mechanisms of yielding, work hardening, and other strengthening.
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Requisites: course 151 and one course from 143A, Electrical Engineering 175, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 156A, or 156B. Mechanics of laminated composites, textile structural composites, strength and failure theory, fracture, fatigue and damage tolerance, environmental effects, microcomputer software for composite analysis and design.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Preparation: three years of high school mathematics. Requisite: successful completion of Mathematics Diagnostic Test. Function concept. Linear and polynomial functions and their graphs, applications to optimization. Inverse, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Trigonometric functions. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Preparation: three and one-half years of high school mathematics (including trigonometry). Requisite: successful completion of Mathematics Diagnostic Test or course 1 (C- or better). Not open for credit to students with credit in another calculus sequence. Techniques and applications of differential calculus. Introduction to the integral. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Preparation: at least three and one-half years of high school mathematics (including some coordinate geometry and trigonometry). Requisite: successful completion of Mathematics Diagnostic Test or course 1 (C- or better). Differential calculus and applications; introduction to integration.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 31A (C- or better). Not open for credit to students with credit for course 3B, 3C, or 31B. Calculus with applications to economics. Partial differentiation, differentials, implicit functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, extrema, optimization, constrained extrema, first-order linear differential equations with constant coefficients. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 31B (B or better). Honors sequence parallel to courses 32A, 32B.
Corequisite: course 32A. Prior knowledge of computers not required. Application of mathematical software to calculus of curves and surfaces. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 32A (C- or better). Introduction to integral calculus of several variables, vector field theory, line and surface integrals. P/NP or letter grading.
Requisite: course 32AL. Corequisite: course 32B. Application of mathematical software to calculus of curves and surfaces. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 32A (C- or better). Introduction to matrix theory, differential equations, and systems of differential equations.
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Honors sequence parallel to courses 33A, 33B. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 33A (C- or better). Infinite sequences and series; applications.
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; laboratory, one hour. Requisite: course 38A. Not open for credit to students with credit for any course from Mathematics 110A through 199. May not be applied toward Letters and Science general education requirements. Continuation of course 38A. Elementary number theory; probability and statistics; the microcomputer and simple instructional programs; measurement and approximation; coordinate geometry. Other topics appropriate for elementary classroom. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 31A, 31B, Program in Computing 10A or 3. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 113. Discrete structures commonly used in computer science and mathematics, including sets and relations, permutations and combinations, graphs and trees, induction, Boolean algebras.
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Seminar, three hours. Seminar course on selected topics of contemporary interest in mathematics. Substantial student participation. P/NP or letter grading.
General and Teacher Training
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 38A, 38B. Designed for prospective elementary teachers. Informal geometry and topology, motion geometry, measurement of geometric figures, LOGO computer language, models and constructions appropriate for elementary classrooms.
Requisite: course 3A or 31A. Roots of modern mathematics in ancient Babylonia and Greece, development of algebra through Middle Ages to Fermat and Abel, invention of analytic geometry and calculus, selected topics in modern mathematics. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 115A. 110A. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 117. Ring of integers, integral domains, fields, polynomial domains, unique factorization. 110B. Groups, structure of finite groups.
(Formerly numbered 110AH-110BH-110CH.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Honors sequence parallel to courses 110A-110B.
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 110A-110B. Field extensions, Galois theory, applications to geometric constructions, and solvability by radicals.
(Formerly numbered 111A-111B-111C.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 110A or 117, 115A. Divisibility, congruences, Diophantine analysis, selected topics in theory of primes, algebraic number theory, Diophantine equations.
(Formerly numbered M112A.) (Same as Philosophy M134.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 31B or Philosophy 32. Axiomatic set theory as framework for mathematical concepts; relations and functions, numbers, cardinality, axiom of choice, transfinite numbers. P/NP or letter grading.
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(Formerly numbered 114A-114B-114C.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 115A. Propositional and predicate logic; syntax and semantics; formal deductions; completeness and compactness; Herbrand expansions. Effectively computable, Turing computable, and recursive functions; thesis of Church. Universal functions; unsolvability results. Recursive and recursively enumerable sets; recursive enumerability of valid sentences. Formal number theory; definability of recursive functions; incompleteness and undecidability; theorems of Gödel, Tarski, Church. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Honors course parallel to course 115A.
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Requisite: course 131A. Metric and topological spaces, completeness, compactness, connectedness, functions, continuity, homeomorphisms, topological properties.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 115A. Axioms and models, Euclidean geometry, Hilbert axioms, neutral (absolute) geometry, hyperbolic geometry, Poincaré model, independence of parallel postulate.
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. 131A. Requisite: course 33B. Rigorous introduction to foundations of real analysis; real numbers, point set topology in Euclidean space, functions, continuity. 131B. Requisites: courses 33B, 115A, 131A. Derivatives, Riemann integral, sequences and series of functions, power series, Fourier series.
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Honors sequence parallel to courses 131A-131B.
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 131A-131B. Advanced topics in analysis, such as Lebesgue integral, integration on manifolds, harmonic analysis. Content varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit by petition.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 33A, 33B. Linear partial differential equations, boundary and initial value problems; wave equation, heat equation, and Laplace equation; separation of variables, eigenfunction expansions; selected topics, as method of characteristics for nonlinear equations.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 32B, 33B. Introduction to fundamental principles and spirit of applied mathematics. Emphasis on manner in which mathematical models are constructed for physical problems. Illustrations from many fields of endeavor, such as physical sciences, biology, economics, and traffic dynamics.
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(Formerly numbered 141A-141B.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 32B, 33B, 115A, Program in Computing 3 or 10A. Introduction to numerical methods with emphasis on algorithms, analysis of algorithms, and computer implementation issues. 151A. Solution of nonlinear equations. Numerical differentiation, integration, and interpolation. Direct methods for solving linear systems. 151B. Numerical solution of differential equations. Approximation theory, iterative solutions of linear equations, solution of nonlinear systems, two-point boundary value problems, optimization.
(Formerly numbered 148A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 151A-151B. Introduction to first- and second-order linear partial differential equations. Finite difference and finite element solution of elliptic, hyperbolic, and parabolic equations. Method of lines and Rayleigh/Ritz procedures. Concepts of stability and accuracy.
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: Program in Computing 10C. Software structures, concepts, and conventions that support object-oriented programming. Identification of class structure, problem partitioning, and abstraction. Design and implementation of computer applications requiring scientific computation, visualization, and GUI components. Interlanguage interfacing. P/NP or letter grading.
(Formerly numbered 144.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 115A. Not open for credit to students with credit for Electrical Engineering 136. Principles of linear programming, duality theorem, simplex methods; applications to industrial and business problems. Additional topics such as sensitivity analysis, integer programming, distribution and transportation algorithms, and applications to game theory.
(Formerly numbered 147.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 115A. Games in extensive form, strategic equilibrium, matrix games and minimax theorem, cooperative and noncooperative solutions of bimatrix games and Lemke/Howson algorithm. Possible additional topics include combinatorial games, stochastic games, coalitional games and the core, marriage problem, and cost allocation. P/NP or letter grading.
(Formerly numbered M150A.) (Same as Statistics M152A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 32B, 33B. Not open to students with credit for Statistics M152A, 154A, or Electrical Engineering 131A. Probability distributions, random variables and vectors, expectation. P/NP or letter grading.
(Formerly numbered 150B.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course M170A or Statistics M152A. Convergence in distribution, normal approximation, laws of large numbers, Poisson processes, random walks.
(Formerly numbered 151.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course M170A or Statistics M152A. Discrete Markov chains, continuous-time Markov chains, renewal theory.
Seminar, three hours. Participating seminar on advanced topics in mathematics. Content varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit by petition.
Requisites: courses 33A, 33B. Selected topics of contemporary interest in mathematics. Substantial student participation. May be repeated for credit. P/NP or letter grading.
At discretion of chair and subject to availability of staff, individuals or groups may study topics suitable for undergraduate course credit but not specifically offered as separate courses. May be repeated for credit, but no more than one 199 course may be applied toward upper division courses required for a major offered by Mathematics Department.
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course M112. Model theory: compactness theorem; Lowenheim/Skolem theorems; definability; ultraproducts; preservation theorems; interpolation theorems. Recursion function theory: thesis of Church; recursively enumerable sets; hierarchies; degrees. Formal proofs: completeness and incompleteness theorems; decidable and undecidable theories; quantifier elimination. Set theory: Zermelo/Fraenkel and von Neumann/Gödel axioms; cardinal and ordinal numbers; continuum hypothesis; constructible sets; independence results and forcing. S/U or letter grading.
(Formerly numbered 252A-252B-252C.) Lecture, three hours. Requisites: courses 245A-245B-245C, 246A-246B-246C. Potential theory, subharmonic functions, harmonic measure; Hardy spaces; entire functions; univalent functions; Riemann surfaces; extremal length, variational methods, quasi-conformal mappings. Topics vary from year to year. S/U or letter grading.
(Formerly numbered 256A-256B-256C.) Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 255A. Topological groups and their basic properties. Haar measure. Compact groups and their representations. Duality and Fourier analysis on locally compact abelian groups. Induced representations, Frobenius reciprocity. Representations of special groups (Lorentz, Galilean, etc.). Projective representations. Representations of totally disconnected groups. S/U or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Requisites: courses 131A-131B, 132, and 135A-135B or 146. Spectral theory of regular boundary value problems and examples of singular Sturm/Liouville problems, related integral equations, phase/plane analysis of nonlinear equations. S/U or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Requisites: courses 115A, 135A, 151A-151B. Numerical solution for systems of ordinary differential equations; initial and boundary value problems. Numerical solution for elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic partial differential equations. Topics in computational linear algebra. S/U or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours. Requisites: courses 115A, 151A-151B, Program in Computing 10A. S/U or letter grading:
Considered equivalent to Mathematics 285A-285L for purposes of degree requirements. Topics in various computational fields by means of lectures and informal conferences with staff members. S/U or letter grading:
(Same as Mathematics M170A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: Mathematics 32B, 33B. Not open to students with credit for course 154A, Mathematics M170A, or Electrical Engineering 131A. Probability distributions, random variables and vectors, expectation. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Not open to students with credit for courses M152A and 152B. P/NP or letter grading. 154A. Requisites: Mathematics 32B, 33B. Not open to students with credit for course M152A, Mathematics M170A, or Electrical Engineering 131A. Probability, distributions, expectation, estimation, central limit theorem, confidence intervals, testing. 154B. Requisite: course 154A. One- and two-sample problems, goodness of fit and contingency tables, correlation and regression, analysis of variance, nonparametrics.