Doctorate in Mathematics

About the Doctorate in Mathematics

This is a professional research degree designed to prepare students for various advanced professional careers, including college teaching and research.

Qualifying Examination

Before formally becoming a candidate, a student must have training equivalent to that required for a master’s degree and must pass a qualifying examination shortly after beginning work at MU.

Degree Requirements

In addition, the candidate must give evidence of reading proficiency in two foreign languages (Updated 4/24/2007). The candidate must further complete a course of study approved by the doctoral program committee and pass a comprehensive examination.

Areas of Study

The active areas of research interest of the current members of the staff are: algebraic geometry, analysis (real, complex, functional and harmonic), analytic functions, applied mathematics, financial mathematics and mathematics of insurance, commutative rings, scattering theory, differential equations (ordinary and partial), differential geometry, dynamical systems, general relativity, mathematical physics, number theory, probabilistic analysis and topology.