Learning outcomes

By the end of the course the student will have acquired the knowledge of the discipline and the transferable skills needed to practise the many professional activities that require substantial mathematical skills: these are highly varied professions in which mathematics interacts with oteco fields and mathematicians collaborate with people who come from different backgrounds.

The programme offers a general education in the major fields of fundamental mathematics, including recent advanced subjects, and allows the student to deal in depth with closely related fields that have already been introduced in the Bachelor in Mathematics (especially physics, but also statistics, actuarial science, and computing).
As with anyone who has a university degree from UCL, the graduate Master in Mathematics will be capable of taking a critical, constructive and innovative view of the present-day world and its problems, of acting as a responsible and competent citizen in society and in his professional milieu, of independently acquiring and using new knowledge and skills throughout his professional life, and of managing major projects in all their aspects, both individually and as part of a team.

On successful completion of this programme, each student is able to :

1) master the disciplinary knowledge and basic transferable skills whose acquisition began in the Bachelor programme. He will have expanded his basic disciplinary knowledge and skills.

• Choose and use the fundamental methods and tools of calculation to solve mathematical problems.
• Recognise the fundamental concepts of important current mathematical theories.
• Establish the main connections between these theories, analyse them and explain them through the use of examples.

2) show evidence of abstract thinking and of a critical spirit.

• Recognise the fundamental concepts of important current mathematical theories.
• Identify the unifying aspects of different situations and experiences.
• Argue within the context of the axiomatic method.
• Construct and draw up a proof independently, clearly and rigorously.

3) communicate in a scientific manner.

• Write a mathematical text in French according to the conventions of the discipline.
• Structure an oral presentation and adapt it to the listeners’ level of understanding.
• Communicate in English (level C1 for reading comprehension, level B2 for listening comprehension and for oral and written expression, CEFR).

4) show evidence of independent learning.

• Find sources in the mathematical literature and assess their relevance.
• Correctly locate an advanced mathematical text in relation to knowledge acquired.
• Ask himself relevant and lucid questions on a mathematical topic in an independent manner.

5) analyse, in depth and from a variety of viewpoints, a mathematical problem or a complex system relating to scientific disciplines other than mathematics in order to extract the essential features and relate them to the best-suited theoretical tools.

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