Mathematical Sciences
Our program in Mathematical Sciences teaches one to think analytically and creatively. It is a foundation for advanced careers in a knowledge- based economy. The past century has been a remarkable one for discovery in mathematics. Problems in computer science, physics, biology, and economics have opened new fields of mathematical inquiry, and discoveries at the most abstract level, for example in number theory, have led to breakthroughs in applied areas.
Honours Bachelor of Science
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Entry to the Computer Science, Mathematics & Statistics admission category is gained directly from high school. Applicants who have completed any postsecondary studies (including studies at other divisions at the University of Toronto) are not eligible for admission.
Life in Mathematical Sciences
Buzz Around Campus
A University of Toronto startup that uses crowdsourcing to deliver goods to small businesses has been acquired by its biggest customer. Blip Delivery, founded in 2018 by U of T Mississauga students affiliated with ICUBE’s accelerator program, is the Uber of deliveries, says co-founder and CEO Srikanth Srinivas, who is in his final year of studying computer science.
Daniel Zingaro wants to click with his students – literally. Zingaro, an assistant professor, teaching stream, in the Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at U of T Mississauga, is considered an international leader in the use of peer instruction, or PI – an active-learning approach that uses clickers to engage students on material.
A new student club at U of T Mississauga is connecting women in science and computing studies with networking and career development opportunities. Since its soft launch in December, the Women in Science and Computing club (or WiSC) has hosted three events, including an exam study session, a film screening and a career panel with a San Francisco-based leader in web development.
Sample Courses
The relationships among axioms, proofs, consistency and truth in mathematics. Soundness and Completeness. Introductions to model theory, set theory, and computability; arithmetic as a central example. Gödel's incompleteness theorems; outlines of their proofs.
The course will take students on a journey through the methods of algebra and number theory in cryptography, from Euclid to Zero Knowledge Proofs. Topics include: block ciphers and the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES); and zero-knowledge proofs.
This is a one-term course to give students extensive practice in the writing of mathematics. The format will be to study excellent expositions of important ideas of mathematics and then to assign short writing assignments based on them.
Other Programs to Consider
Applied Statistics
Today we are bombarded with information from quantitative studies, information generated from the application of statistical methodologies. The Applied Statistics Specialist Program at U of T Mississauga provides students with a solid foundation in the fundamental aspects of probability and introduces students to a broad range of applied statistics methodologies. The Major and Minor Programs in Applied Statistics consist largely of STA courses, and may be combined with programs in other subjects.
Computer Science
Computer science is concerned in the broadest sense with the study of computation and applications of computing. Its development has been stimulated by collaborations with many disciplines including engineering, the physical and life sciences, mathematics and statistics and commerce. Computer science as a discipline encompasses a wide range of research areas including human-computer interaction, software engineering, numerical analysis, machine learning, and cryptography.
Physics
The domain of physics ranges from its origins in natural philosophy to the investigations of complex biological systems.