Mathematics fundamentals for biology and chemistry

Period of duration of course
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Course info
Number of course hours
50
Number of hours of lecturers of reference
40
Number of hours of supplementary teaching
10
CFU 6
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Modalità esame

Written and oral exam

Prerequisiti

First year calculus and linear algebra

Programma

Fundamentals of measure theory, integration, L^p spaces. Hilbert spaces and orthonormal bases. Fourier series. Distributions. Fourier transform and applications. Jordan form and matrix exponential. Introduction to ODEs. Fundamentals of probability theory.

Obiettivi formativi

This course couples a rich (altough elementary) study of the theoretical elements of the program, with the applications of aforementioned theories to problems, mostly coming from effective experimental models.

Riferimenti bibliografici

Course lecture notes (in PDF)

Gerald Teschl , Ordinary Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems
AMS graduate studies in math 140 ; versione 27 Giugno 2012
(free download)