Semester:
Spring
Offered:
2025
This course provides an introduction to the problems and issues of applied mathematics, focusing on areas where mathematical ideas have had a major impact on diverse fields of human inquiry. The course is organized around two-week topics drawn from a variety of fields, and involves reading classic mathematical papers in each topic. We will build mathematical and statistical models of real life problems such as spread of disease and option pricing, use computational methods to calculate predictions of our models, and test these predictions on real data. Mathematics 1b is a prerequisite, although it can be taken concurrently. No programming experience will be assumed.