In our honours year, we offer 11 different courses. To complete an honours in mathematics or applied mathematics students can choose 6 courses among the 11 offered and must complete one honours project in addition.

The courses currently offered are:

  • Algebraic Graph Theory
  • Artificial Neural Networks
  • Enumerative Combinatorics
  • General Relativity
  • Introduction to Category Theory
  • Machine Learning
  • Matrix Groups
  • Measure Theory
  • Numerical Modelling
  • Spectral Collocation Method
  • Topology

See here for more details.

If you are interested in pursuing MSc, PhD (or postdoctoral) studies in this Department, you should contact the academic staff member with whom you would like to study, since we offer these qualifications by thesis only.

When you do contact a potential supervisor, please write about the topic in which you would like to pursue research, as well as your background in that topic.

The current areas of research interests in the Department are:

  • Computational methods in general relativity and cosmology - in particular, gravitational radiation from black hole events. (N.T. Bishop, D. Pollney)
  • Functional analysis; Measure theory. (A.L. Pinchuck)
  • Geometry; Geometric control theory. (C.C. Remsing)
  • Graph Theory; Combinatorics. (E. Andriantiana)
  • Topology: General, point-free (locale and frame theory) and categorical. (M. Nxumalo)

You can find out more about the research groups in the Department here: Research