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Post Graduate Courses

M821 Non-linear ordinary differential equations

David Robertson (2002)

A part of the MSc mathematics course. If you own Mathematica or Maple this is a great opportunity to put them to use. Much of the difficulty in this course is in the expansions and approximations but with practice it actually becomes possible to do those under exam conditions. The course content seems no harder than a final level degree course but it is more intricate. There is less student support in terms of tutorials or individual tuition than in undergraduate courses but on the other hand my tutor always replied to my emails with much useful advice.

There are no past exam papers available but a specimen is given. This allows some practice for the examination, there being 40 per cent or so very similar. Beyond this, some of the questions would have taken a lot longer and required detailed knowledge.