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Degree Programme in Financial Mathematics and Economics

Syllabus Proposal for 1999/2000 Year

  The course outlines are included for reference purposes. It is not intended to include them in the Calendar entry.
First Year Courses
Code
  
Course title
Hours per week
Credits
         
MA
180
Mathematics
4
16
EC
101/2
Economics
* 4
16
CS
103
Computer Science
2
8
MA
110
Statistics & Probability
2
8
MA
111
Mathematics of Finance I
2
8
MP
191
Mathematical Methods I
1
4
         
   
Total
15
60

 
Second Year Courses

Semester I

Code
  
Course title
Hours per week
Credits
         
MA
286
Functions of Several Real Variables
2
4.5
MA
284
Discrete Mathematics
2
4.5
EC
215
Microeconomics
3
7.5
MA
227
Probability
2
4.5
CS
204
Algorithms
2
4.5
MP
291
Mathematical Methods II
2
4.5
         
   
Total
13
30

Semester II

         
MA
287
Functions of One Complex Variable
2
4.5
MA
283
Linear Algebra
2
4.5
EC
217
Macroeconomics
3
7.5
EC
218
Mathematical Economics
2
4.5
MA
228
Statistical Inference
2
4.5
CS
205
Languages and Operating Systems
2
4.5
         
   
Total
13
30

 
Third Year Courses

Semester I

Code
  
Course title
Hours per week
Credits
         
MA
381
Metric Spaces
2
3.75
MA
343
Groups I
2
3.75
EC
302
Advanced Microeconomics
2
3.75
EC
311
Economics of Financial Markets
2
3.75
MA
313
Applied Statistics
2
3.75
MA
311
Annuities and Life Insurance
2
3.75
MP
391
Mathematical Modelling
2
3.75
MG
  
Industrial Management
2
3.75
         
   
Total
16
30

Semester II

         
MA
342
Topology
2
3.75
MA
344
Groups II
2
3.75
EC
304
Advanced Macroeconomics
2
3.75
EC
321
Money and Banking
2
3.75
MA
310
Actuarial Mathematics I
2
3.75
EC
323
Advanced Econometrics
2
3.75
MG
  
Industrial Management
2
3.75
   
+ one course from list of options below
2
3.75
         
   
Total
16
30

 
Fourth Year Courses

Semester I

Code
  
Course title
Hours per week
Credits
         
MA
416
Rings
2
4
MA
490
Measure Theory
2
4
MA
418
Differential Equations with Financial Derivatives
1
2
MP
491
Non Linear Systems
2
4
EC
410
Seminar in Economics of Financial Markets I
2
4
MA
  
Actuarial Mathematics II
2
4
CS
421
Neural Networks I
1
2
         
   
(in addition, project/minor thesis work-5 credits-and one course from list of options below-2 hours per week, 4 credits)
2
9
         
   
Total
14
33

Semester II

         
MA
491
Fields and Codes
2
4
MA
494
Stochastic Processes
2
4
MA
  
Actuarial Mathematics III
1
2
EC
320
International Monetary Economics
2
4
EC
411
Seminar in Economics of Financial Markets II
2
4
CS
423
Neural Networks II
2
4
         
   
(in addition, project/minor thesis work-5 credits)
  
5
   
(Project amounts to 10 credits)
    
         
   
Total
11
27

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