Course Overview
CDs, DVDs, computer games, clinical studies, statistical surveys, the management of traffic jams, risk evaluations for insurance, early-warning systems for the finance market, encryption technologies, and the simulations of geological phenomena ? they all have one thing in common: mathematics!
Our daily life would completely different without mathematics and many products and services wouldn't even exist.
Scientific disciplines also call up mathematics to use structured arithemetic techniques to find solutions for complex problems. Mathematicians develop highly complex problem situations and structures within the interdisciplinary interaction of disciplines. In doing so, they obtain a deep understanding for the observed systems.
Furthermore they support every step of a solution with analysis and prognosis methods, and primarily simulation processes. With these processes they create predictable models, which are verifiable and can replace lengthy, expensive test series.
In order to reflect the diverse challenges, RWTH gives its mathematicians application-oriented training. After completing an intensive and demanding core curriculum, students have access to fields where mathematical methods are applied, for example the natural sciences and engineering.
After completion of the core curriculum, RWTH's mathematics program offers a comprehenisive range of elective modules, with which students can create their own individual profile starting in the fourth semester. The module catalogue reflects the extraordinarily broad research spectrum of the RWTH Department of Mathematics. The wide range of topics on offer includes differential equations, optimization, statistics, computer algebra, graph theory, uncertainty quantification, and numerical analysis.
The Aachen mathematics course of study's high practical relevance is evident in the application subjects, which accompany the mathematics training starting right in the first semester and make up about 20 percent of the curriculum:
The combination of a high theoretical niveau and practical implementation ensures RWTH graduates possess profound methodological skills.