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A Guide to Post-Graduate Mathematics at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh
This is a no frills guide to post-graduate mathematics at Heriot-Watt, why it is an excellent place to study and what your life will be like here.We offer taught post graduate courses to MSc level through the
- Applied Mathematical Sciences MSc Programme
- Advanced Mathematics and Statistics for Engineers Masters Training Package
Supervision, leading to the degree of Ph.D. or M.Phil. by research, is available in the all the areas listed below.
- Algebra
- Bifurcation theory
- Combinatorics
- Computer-aided learning in mathematics
- Continuum mechanics
- Dynamical systems
- Elasticity
- Functional analysis
- Group theory
- Mathematical biology
- Mathematical physics
- Mathematics applied to medicine
- Nonlinear differential equations
- Numerical analysis
- Partial differential equations
- Spectral theory of partial differential equations
- Statistical mechanics and probability theory
- String theory
- Topology