2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin - NMU Bulletin

MA 497 Directed Studies in Mathematics 1-4 cr.

• Offered: On demand
• Graded: S/U
• Prerequisites: Junior standing and department head permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Individual investigations of a special topic in mathematics.

MA 496 Special Topics in Mathematics 1-4 cr.

• Offered: On demand
• Graded: S/U
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Same as MA 495.

MA 495 Special Topics in Mathematics 1-4 cr.

• Offered: On demand
• Prerequisites: For upper division students and majors and minors or instructor’s permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Topics of special interest to students and staff. Notes: May be repeated, with instructor’s permission, if topic differs.

MA 491 Internship in Applied Mathematics 3-6 cr.

• Offered: On demand
• Graded: S/U
• Prerequisites: Junior status in good standing with an overall grade point average of 2.75, a GPA in the major of 3.00 and departmental approval.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Supervised practical experience in some area of applied mathematics in an industrial, business or governmental setting. Students are required to document their work experience and write a report which will be evaluated by their faculty supervisor in consultation with the employer.

MA 490 Senior Seminar 3 cr.

• Offered: On demand
• Prerequisites: MA 312 and senior standing or instructor permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

In this capstone course, a wide a variety of mathematical concepts and applications are studied and connections between them are explored. Students choose a senior project which explores relationships; either between different areas of mathematics or between an area of mathematics and an interesting external application. Students work closely with a faculty member on the senior project, which includes an oral presentation and a formal written submission. Senior standing or permission from the instructor is required, and this course is required for the major.

MA 485 Stochastic Models in Operations Research 3 cr.

• Offered: On demand
• Prerequisites: MA 371, MA 381, junior standing or instructor’s permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Survey of stochastic models in operations research with emphasis on dynamic programming, Markovian decision processes, queuing, inventory control, production planning and simulation models.

MA 484 History of Mathematical Thought 3 cr.

• Offered: Winter
• Prerequisites: MA 312 or MA 331, junior standing or instructor’s permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

A historical view of mathematics. Studies in discovery, rigorization and generalization through abstraction.

MA 483 Introduction to Number Theory 3 cr.  (3-0-0)

• Offered: On demand
• Prerequisites: MA 163 and MA 211 or instructor permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Peano’s axioms, Euclidean algorithm, congruence, quadratic reciprocity law, Gaussian integers, continued fractions, Diophantine equations and theory of equations.

MA 482 Foundations of Mathematics 3 cr.

• Offered: On demand
• Prerequisites: Junior standing and instructor’s permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Informal axiomatic set theory, cardinal and ordinal arithmetic, transfinite induction and issues in the philosophy of mathematics.

MA 481 Mathematical Logic 3 cr.

• Offered: Winter 2007; every third winter thereafter
• Prerequisites: Junior standing and instructor's permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

The propositional and predicate calculi, syntax and semantics, consistency and completeness and undecidability. Included are Goedel’s theorems, recursive function theory, model theory and applications.