DOCTORAL PROGRAMS
Mathematics

The mathematics program is designed to prepare especially able students for a career in mathematical research and instruction. Our relatively small enrollment of thirty to forty students permits small classes and close contact with faculty. Applicants should have a good background in undergraduate mathematics, regardless of their majors. Students with backgrounds in advanced mathematics will find our program quite flexible. Visits to Brown and direct communication with the director of graduate study are strongly encouraged. The core courses are in differentiable manifolds, real functions, complex functions, algebra, and topology. Other courses offered each year are in P.D.E., probability, algebraic geometry, number theory, and differential geometry.

Additional resources: The library contains one of the finest mathematical collections available anywhere. The department has extensive computing facilities.

Completion requirements: Ph.D.: One foreign language chosen from French, German, and Russian; advancement to candidacy determined in part by qualification in the basic and advanced courses; teaching experience; examination on an advanced topic; expository talk based on a research paper in that subject; dissertation; and oral defense.

ADMISSION INFORMATION

GRE General: Required

GRE Subject: Recommended

Application deadline: January 10

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PROGRAM INFORMATION

Mathematics
Brown University, Box 1917
Providence, RI 02912

Phone: (401) 863-2708

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Program handbook

Department Chair
Jeffrey Hoffstein

Director of Graduate Study
Dan Abramovich

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