MATH2059 is a Mathematics Level II course which is only available to students for whom it is specifically required as part of their program. See the course overview below.

Units of credit: 3

Prerequisites: MATH1231 or MATH1241.

Exclusions: MATH2120, MATH2130.

Cycle of offering: yearly in Semester 2.

Graduate attributes: the course will enhance your research, inquiry and analytical thinking abilities.

More information: this recent course handout (pdf) contains information about course objectives, assessment, course materials and the syllabus. (This pdf will usually be updated by the end of the first week of the semester.) The Online Handbook entry contains up-to-date timetabling information.

If you are currently enrolled in MATH2059, you can log into the My eLearning Vista instance of this course.

Ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and partial differential equations (PDEs) of one kind or another underlie mathematical models for virtually all phenomena that change continuously in time (for ODEs) and in space and time (for PDEs). Solving these equations is the main topic of this course.

In the first part of the course, you will learn to solve first order and second order ODEs of various kinds, ranging from separable equations to linear homogeneous and non-homogeneous equations.

In the second part, you will learn Fourier series and Fourier series technique to solve PDEs which model vibration of strings, heat and wave transmission.