In the third year, there are 35 lecture courses, and a computational project. As in the second year, students decide how many courses to take: usually three or four a term.
At the end of the year, there are written examinations, and reports are submitted for the computational projects course.
Examples of course topics
The courses include some whose content may be guessed at from the titles, such as:
- Number Theory;
- Coding and Cryptography,
- Mathematical Biology,
- Cosmology,
- Logic and Set Theory,
- Principles of Statistics,
- Waves.
and some whose content remains obscure unless you have already encountered these topics:
- Galois Theory (advanced group theory in which it is proved that you can’t in general solve a quintic equation);
- Algebraic Topology (in which properties of similar shapes - such as doughnuts and teacups - are classified);
- Asymptotic Methods (how functions behave at large values of their arguments);
- General Relativity (a theory of gravity);
- Stochastic Financial Models (how to predict unpredictable markets).
See a full list of courses here.