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The School of Mathematics and Physics offers units for students specialising in mathematics or intending to use mathematics in other areas. Units are designed to enable students to apply mathematics to other disciplines in the physical and biological sciences, commerce, economics and engineering.
The School offers Honours in Mathematics, Physics and Antarctic Studies. In each discipline, this is an independent fourth year that gives the students an Honours degree.
Units are offered in pure and applied mathematics and statistics. Mathematics is rapidly becoming the technical language of the physical and biological sciences, and so units in mathematics underpin the theoretical study of aspects of the theme areas.
In Hobart, the School is located in the Mathematics/Physics building and in a wing of the Centenary building on the Sandy Bay campus. It has access to two computing laboratories in the Mathematics/Physics building, and three laboratories for student instruction in physics practicals.
Research facilities in the Mathematics discipline on the Hobart campus are good. The School has good computing facilities, with a central SUN ULTRA1 Unix machine acting as a server to either a PC or a Macintosh computer on each staff member’s desk.
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