Application
Application
Key Information
- Name:
- Mathematics
- Degree:
- Master of Science
- Teaching language:
- English, German (see FAQ)
- Standard period of studies:
- 4 semesters
- Start of studies:
- Winter semester (October intake) and summer semester (April intake)
- Admission:
- Restricted (Application to the faculty)
- Timelines:
- Applicants from outside Europe
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Applications opens: In February for entry the following October resp. August for entry the following April
Deadline: 15 April for entry the following October resp. 15 October for entry the following April
Notifications: Late May for entry the following October resp. late November for entry the following April - Applicants from Europe
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Applications opens: In May for entry the following October resp. November for entry the following April
Deadline: 01 July for entry the following October resp. 01 January for entry the following April
Notifications: Late July for entry the following October resp. late January for entry the following April
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics or related subject with a total of at least 180 ECTS credits
- Eligibility:
- at least 90 ECTS credits in mathematics, including:
- at least 16 ECTS credits in real analysis
- at least 16 ECTS credits in analytical geometry and linear algebra
- a total of at least 8 ECTS credits in pure mathematics at level above real analysis / linear algebra
- at least 8 ECTS credits in measure and probability theory
- at least 8 ECTS credits in numerical mathematics
- further 34 ECTS credits in mathematics at a level exceeding the above mentioned courses
- at least 90 ECTS credits in mathematics, including:
- Language requirements (proof must not be older than 2 years): English proficiency at level CEFR C1 or higher (e.g. IELTS Band 7,0 or TOEFL iBT 94). Alternatively German proficiency at level CEFR C1 or higher (e.g. German Abitur certificate).
Courses that cover these topics count towards your Master’s Degree application in the area “Real analysis”, only. They count up to at most 16 ECTS credits. Applicants must have completed courses covering both Riemann–Stieltjes integration and Lebesgue integration.
- Logic: Sets, equivalence relation, inequalities and orderings, maps.
- The real numbers: Supremum and infimum, monotone sequences, convergence of sequences, Chauchy sequences, real numbers are complete.
- Continuity of real functions: Intermediate value theorem, inverse functions, convergence and uniform convergence of function sequences, direct comparison test.
- Differentiability of real functions: Mean value theorem, Taylor’s theorem, find minimum and maximum values.
- Series: Absolute and conditional convergence, geometric series, harmonic series, critieria for convergence, series of functions, component wise differentiation and integration, powerseries, radius of convergence.
- Elementary functions: Exponential map, trigonometric functions, their inverses.
- Integration (one variable): Integrals Fundamental theorem of calculus, antiderivative, improper integrals, partial integration, substitution, Leibniz’ Rule for integrals.
- Spaces: Topology, continuity, compactness, metric spaces, completeness, Banach fixed point theorem, normed vector spaces.
- Real analysis: Differential maps, partial differentiation, Taylor ‘s Theorem, inverse function theorem, implicit function theorem, extreme values, Lagrange multipliers.
- Integration (multiple variable): Riemann–Stieltjes integral, Lebesgue measure, Lebesgue integral, dominated convergence theorem, transformation formula, Fubini’s Theorem.
- Submanifolds: Submanifolds of R^n, Integration over submanifolds, Gaussian integrals.
- Ordinary differential equations: Local existence and uniqueness, linear differential equations and systems of linear differential equations, fundamental solutions, variation of constants.
Courses that cover these topics count towards your Master’s Degree application in the area “Analytical geometry and linear algebra”, only. They count up to at most 16 ECTS credits.
- Basic knowledge: Sets and maps, proofs: Proof by contradiction, Induction. Basics of groups, rings (in particular polynomial rings), fields; Introduction of complex numbers an residue fields.
- Structures of vector spaces: linear dependence, basis, dimension; linear maps and fundamental theorem of homomorphisms.
- Matrices I: Gaussian algorithm, trace and determinant, permutations, Cramer rule, solving of linear systems.
- Eigenvalues: Characteristic polynomial, diogonalisability, Cayley-Hamilton theorem.
- Euclidean geometry, geometry of unitary transformations Scalar products and norms, orthogonality, normal maps, euclidean and unitary vector spaces.
- Quadratic and hermitian forms, Principal axis theorem, Sylvester's law of inertia
- Affine and projective geometry
- Matrices II: Jordan normal form, matrix exponentials
- Multilinear algebra: tensor products and tensor algebras, exterior product.
Courses at level above real analysis / linear algebra are expected. Courses that cover these topics will be counted towards the area “Pure mathematics”.
- Higher analysis: Analysis on manifolds, complex analysis, functional analysis, partial differential equations,... .
- Advanced geometry: Algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, differential geometry, projective geometry,... .
- Advanced algebra: Commutative algebra, field theory, Galois theory, homological algebra, Lie theory,... .
- Number theory: Analytic number theory, algebraic number theory, geometry of numbers, diophantine equations,....
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Courses that contain these topics will be counted towards the area “Numerical mathematics”.
- Conditioning and stability: Error analysis, error propagation, numerical stability, ill/well-conditioned.
- Matrix decomposition: LU decomposition, QR decomposition, Cholesky decomposition.
- Non-linear systems: Fixed-point iteration, Banach fixed-point theorem, Newton's method, Gauss–Newton algorithm.
- Linear systems: Iterative algorithms, fixed point iteration, Gauss-Seidel method, gradient descent.
- Eigenvalue problems: QR algorithm, singular value decomposition, Lanczos algorithm.
- Numerical integration and interpolation: Polynomial interpolation, spline interpolation, Bézier curve, Newton-Cotes formulas, Gaussian quadrature rule, Gauss–Legendre quadrature.
- Initial value problem: Initial condition, single-step method, implicit and explicit methods, Runge–Kutta method, adaptive step size, Fehlberg's method.
- Boundary value problem: Boundary conditions, elliptic differential equations, finite difference method.
Courses that contain these topics will be counted towards the area “Measure and probability”. Applicants are expected to have taken courses covering all these topics.
- Foundations: Sigma-algebra, measure, measurable space, measurable function.
- Lebesgue theory: Lebesgue sigma-algebra, Lebesgue measure, Lebesgue integral.
- Measure-theoretic probability theory: Axiomatic theory of probability, probability measure, probability space, continuous/discrete probability distribution.
- Convergence of random variables: Convergence in measure, convergence in probability, weak convergence.
- Weak law and strong law of large numbers (incl. proofs).
- Central limit theorem and theorem of Lindeberg- Lindeberg-Lévy (incl. proofs).
Application procedure
Applications must be uploaded via the online application portal.
The application is only valid for the semester applied for.
Required documents (mandatory upload in the application portal, only documents in pdf format are accepted):
- Short Curriculum Vitae briefly describing your education career (in German or English). Please include your date of birth and your name as given in your passport. Preferably, use the following form: Europass CV (external link);
- Copy of your degree certificates for all academic degrees earned (original plus translation into German or English);
- Transcripts of records for all academic degree programmes completed or not yet completed (original plus translation into German or English);
- Syllabus/course descriptions for all degree programmes resp. mathematics lecture courses completed or not yet completed; alternatively hyperlinks to syllabus/course descriptions for all degree programmes resp. mathematics lecture courses completed or not yet completed;
- Proof of language proficiency;
- Applicants from outside Europe, only: Verified result of the GRE Subject test in Mathematics, please use the DI Code 1650 and indicate "U Goettingen - Department of Mathematics" as score recipient.
If you are already enrolled at the University of Göttingen, please consider the following:
- As soon as it is likely that you will complete the Bachelor's Degree (in mathematics) in the current semester, you should apply.
- Please re-register regularly for the programme that you are currently enrolled in. The enrollment to the Master's Degree programme in mathematics is being done in form of a change of the degree course after being admitted successfully.
Online Application Portal
(closed)Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
If you have taken the GRE Subject Test in Mathematics at an earlier date, then simply upload your score report along with the other documents. In this case make sure to check the score report validity.
October intake: If you have not taken the GRE Subject Test in Mathematics at an earlier date, then book a GRE Subject Test date in April (usually second half of April). Then the score report is expected to be received in the second week of May. This is the only setting where we accept a late submission.
PS: Please note that if you apply again, then you must fulfil all the application requirements that apply at that time, as published on our website www.uni-goettingen.de/en/473506.html
Further Questions
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