Abstract systems for databases, syntax and semantics of operational languages, dependencies and normal forms, axiomizations, queries and query optimization, null values, algebraic interpretations. Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations. An Introduction, K. W. Morton and D. F. Mayers, Cambridge Univ. Advanced Topics in Combinatorial Theory. May be repeated for credit.
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Advanced Topics in Error-Correcting Codes. Topics of current interest in coding theory including codes which are of practical value and which shed light on various mathematical areas. Introduction to Higher Geometry. For graduate students in mathematics teacher education programs. Other students enroll in Math 440.