Other prerequisites for this program are courses in linear algebra, differential equations and analysis. Deficiencies may be removed after entering.
Students take the seminar during their three semesters in residence.
Each student will work closely with a faculty mentor teaching an undergraduate course and will be actively engaged in the development of activities and assignments. Students will participate in the apprenticeship three times in different teaching situations. The history of various mathematical concepts is examined, with particular attention paid to topics from geometry, algebra, calculus, linear algebra, differential equations and statistics. A study of finite dimensional vector spaces. Among the topics covered are matrices, linear transformations, change of basis, eigenvalues, canonical forms, quadratic forms and quasi-inverses.