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 University of Calgary Calendar 2015-2016 COURSES OF INSTRUCTION Course Descriptions P Pure Mathematics PMAT
Pure Mathematics PMAT
PMAT 315 317 319 415 418 423 425 427 429 431 471 503 505 511 513 527 529 571
 

Instruction offered by members of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in the Faculty of Science.

Department Head – M. Bauer

Note: For listings of related courses, see Actuarial Science, Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, and Statistics.

Note: The following courses, although offered on a regular basis, are not offered every year: Pure Mathematics 415, 423, 425, 427, 505 and 511. Check with the Department office to plan for the upcoming cycle of offered courses.

Note: Effective Fall 2014, Mathematics 265, 267, 367, Mathematics 275, 277, 375 and 377 replaced respectively Mathematics 251, 253, 353, Applied Mathematics 217, 219, 307 and 309 and serves as prerequisites for appropriate courses. In some special cases, Mathematics 267 replaces Mathematics 349 or 353. For these and other deviations from the general rule, see individual course entries for details. Mathematics 267 supplemented by Mathematics 177 will be accepted as equivalent to Mathematics 277.
 
Senior Courses
 
Pure Mathematics 315       Algebra I
Basic ring theory: rings and fields, the integers modulon, Polynomial rings, polynomials over the integers and rationals, homomorphisms, ideals and quotients, principal ideal domains, adjoining the root of an irreducible polynomial; basic group theory: groups, examples including cyclic, symmetric, alternating and dihedral groups, subgroups, cosets and Lagrange’s theorem, normal subgroups and quotients, group homomorphisms, the isomorphism theorems, further topics as time permits, e.g., group actions, Cayley’s theorem.
Course Hours: 3 units; H(3-1T)
Prerequisite(s): Mathematics 211 or 213.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for both Pure Mathematics 315 and 317 will not be allowed.
Notes: Mathematics 271 or 273 is strongly recommended as preparation for this course.
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Pure Mathematics 317       Honours Algebra I
Basic ring theory: rings and fields, the integers modulo n, polynomial rings, polynomials over the integers and rationals, homomorphisms, ideals and quotients, principal ideal domains, adjoining the root of an irreducible polynomial; basic group theory: groups, examples including cyclic, symmetric, alternating and dihedral groups, subgroups, cosets and Lagrange’s theorem, normal subgroups and quotients, group homomorphisms, the isomorphism theorems, further topics as time permits, e.g., group actions, Cayley’s theorem.
Course Hours: 3 units; H(3-1T)
Prerequisite(s): Mathematics 213.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for both Pure Mathematics 317 and 315 will not be allowed.
Notes: Mathematics 271 or 273 is strongly recommended as preparation for this course.
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Pure Mathematics 319       Transformation Geometry
Geometric transformations in the Euclidean plane. Frieze patterns. Wallpaper patterns. Tessellations.
Course Hours: 3 units; H(3-1T)
Prerequisite(s): Mathematics 211 or 213 and one other 200-level course labelled Applied Mathematics, Mathematics or Pure Mathematics, not including Mathematics 205.
Notes: Mathematics 271 or 273 is strongly recommended as preparation.
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Pure Mathematics 415       Foundations
Set theory, mathematical logic, category theory, according to interests of students and instructor.
Course Hours: 3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Mathematics 271 or 273 or 311 or 313 or 353 or 367 or 377 or 381 or Pure Mathematics 315 or 317.
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Pure Mathematics 418       Introduction to Cryptography
The basics of cryptography, with emphasis on attaining well-defined and practical notions of security. Symmetric and public-key cryptosystems; one-way and trapdoor functions; mechanisms for data integrity; digital signatures; key management; applications to the design of cryptographic systems. Assessment will primarily focus on mathematical theory and proof-oriented homework problems; additional application programming exercises will be available for extra credit.
Course Hours: 3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): One of Mathematics 271 or 273 or Pure Mathematics 315 or 317.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for both Pure Mathematics 418 and any of Pure Mathematics 329, Computer Science 418, 429, or 557 will not be allowed.
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Pure Mathematics 423       Differential Geometry
Curvature, connections, parallel transport, Gauss-Bonnet theorem.
Course Hours: 3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Mathematics 353 or 367 or 377 or 381.
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Pure Mathematics 425       Geometry
Euclidean, convex, discrete, synthetic, projective or hyperbolic geometry, according to interests of the instructor.
Course Hours: 3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Pure Mathematics 315 or 317.
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Pure Mathematics 427       Number Theory
Divisibility and the Euclidean algorithm, modular arithmetic and congruences, quadratic reciprocity, arithmetic functions, distribution of primes.
Course Hours: 3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Pure Mathematics 315 or 317.
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Pure Mathematics 429       Cryptography – Design and Analysis of Cryptosystems
Review of basic algorithms and complexity. Designing and attacking public key cryptosystems based on number theory. Basic techniques for primality testing, factoring and extracting discrete logarithms. Elliptic curve cryptography. Additional topics may include knapsack systems, zero knowledge, attacks on hash functions, identity-based cryptography, and quantum cryptography.
Course Hours: 3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Pure Mathematics 315 or 317; and one of Pure Mathematics 329, 418, Computer Science 418.
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Pure Mathematics 431       Algebra II
Group theory: Sylow theorems, solvable, nilpotent and p-groups, simplicity of alternating groups and PSL(n,q), structure theory of finite abelian groups; field theory: gilds, algebraic and transcendental extensions, separability and normality, Galois theory, insolvability of the general quintic equation, computation of Galois groups over the rationals.
Course Hours: 3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Mathematics 311 or 313 and Pure Mathematics 315 or 317.
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Pure Mathematics 471       Combinatorics and Graph Theory
Counting techniques, generating functions, inclusion-exclusion, introduction to graph theory and the theory of relational structures.
Course Hours: 3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Mathematics 271 or 273; and one of Mathematics 249, 251, 265, 275, 281 or Applied Mathematics 217.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for both Pure Mathematics 471 and 371 will not be allowed.
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Pure Mathematics 503       Topics in Mathematics
According to interests of students and instructor.
Course Hours: 3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Consent of the Department.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
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Pure Mathematics 505       Topology I
Basic point set topology: metric spaces, separation and countability axioms, connectedness and compactness, complete metric spaces, function spaces, homotopy.
Course Hours: 3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Pure Mathematics 435 or 455 or Mathematics  335 or 355.
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Pure Mathematics 511       Algebra III
Linear algebra: Modules, direct sums and free modules, tensor products, linear algebra over modules, finitely generated modules over PIDs, canonical forms, computing invariant factors from presentations; projective, injective and flat modules.
Course Hours: 3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Pure Mathematics 431 or Mathematics 411.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for both Pure Mathematics 511 and 611 will not be allowed.
Notes: Pure Mathematics 431 is recommended.
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Pure Mathematics 513       Advanced Galois Theory
Existence of separable and algebraic closures of fields, infinite Galois extensions, profinite groups, Krull topology.
Course Hours: 3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Pure Mathematics 431.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for both Pure Mathematics 513 and 613 will not be allowed.
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Pure Mathematics 527       Computational Number Theory
An investigation of major problems in computational number theory, with emphasis on practical techniques and their computational complexity. Topics include basic integer arithmetic algorithms, finite fields, primality proving, factoring methods, algorithms in algebraic number fields.
Course Hours: 3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Pure Mathematics 427 or 429.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for both Pure Mathematics 527 and 627 will not be allowed.
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Pure Mathematics 529       Advanced Cryptography and Cryptanalysis
Cryptography based on quadratic residuacity. Advanced techniques for factoring and extracting discrete logarithms. Hyperelliptic curve cryptography. Pairings and their applications to cryptography. Code-based and lattice-based cryptography. Additional topics may include provable security, secret sharing, more post-quantum cryptography, and new developments in cryptography.
Course Hours: 3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Pure Mathematics 429.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for both Pure Mathematics 529 and 649 will not be allowed.
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Pure Mathematics 571       Discrete Mathematics
Discrete aspects of convex optimization; computational and asymptotic methods; graph theory and the theory of relational structures; according to interests of students and instructor.
Course Hours: 3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Pure Mathematics 471.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for both Pure Mathematics 571 and 671 will not be allowed.
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