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Department of Mathematics (530)
Track Mathematics Cognition-Dual Major track (1023)For Year:
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
Study Program
1st Year
Compulsory studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Until year
Basic course
Teaching program
76411
INFORMATION & LIBRARY RESOURCES FOR MATH. STUD.
0
3
3
530
80131
INFINITESIMAL CALCULUS (1)
7
3
1
530
80132
INFINITESIMAL CALCULUS (2)
7
3
1
530
80134
LINEAR ALGEBRA (1)
6
3
1
530
80135
LINEAR ALGEBRA (2)
6
3
1
530
80181
DISCRETE MATHEMATICS
5
3
1
530
Total Compulsory Points: 31
Compulsory studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Until year
Basic course
Teaching program
6110
THE PHILOS. FOUNDATIONS OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE
3
1
0
143
6112
INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE
3
1
0
143
6115
COGNITIVE PROCESSES FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCES
3
2
1
+
143
6130
Python the practical aspect
2
2
0
143
6141
OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING FOR COGNITIVE SCIE.
2
1
0
143
6164
From molecules to Neurons
3
1
0
143
6166
From nerve cell to behavior - for first year students
4
2
0
143
Total Compulsory Points: 20
Compulsory studies
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Until year
Basic course
Teaching program
6110
THE PHILOS. FOUNDATIONS OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE
3
1
0
143
6112
INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE
3
1
0
143
Total Compulsory Points: 6
Compulsory elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
80200
SET THEORY
3
2
530
Elective studies
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
80031
Introduction to Stochastic Processes
0
3
530
80032
Active learning workshop to course INFINITESIMAL CALCULUS (2)
0
3
530
80034
Active learning workshop to course LINEAR ALGEBRA (1)
0
3
530
80035
Active learning workshop to course LINEAR ALGEBRA (2)
0
3
530
Elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
80142
Infinitescimal calculus 2 (extended)
7
2
530
Elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
51537
Psycho-biological Processes
3
2
143
Elective studies
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
80115
Elementary Number Theory
4
2
530
80116
Elementary multivariate analysis
3
3
530
2nd Year
Compulsory studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Until year
Basic course
Teaching program
76411
INFORMATION & LIBRARY RESOURCES FOR MATH. STUD.
0
3
3
530
80415
INFINITESIMAL CALCULUS 3
6
3
0
530
80426
Analysis on manifolds
3.5
2
0
530
80427
Functional analysis
2.5
2
0
530
80445
ALGEBRAIC STRUCTURES (1)
6
3
3
530
Total Compulsory Points: 18
Compulsory studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Until year
Basic course
Teaching program
6120
B.A Seminar
4
9
2
+
143
6132
RESEARCH METHODS IN COGNITION
5
2
2
+
143
6167
From a nerve cell to behavior
4
2
0
143
6168
Neuropsychology
2
1
0
143
Total Compulsory Points: 15
Compulsory studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Until year
Basic course
Teaching program
6110
THE PHILOS. FOUNDATIONS OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE
3
1
0
143
6112
INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE
3
1
0
143
Total Compulsory Points: 6
Compulsory elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
80200
SET THEORY
3
2
530
80320
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
4
2
530
80420
PROBABILITY THEORY (1)
4
1
530
80423
MATHEMATICAL LOGIC (1)
4
1
530
80446
ALGEBRAIC STRUCTURES (2)
4
2
530
80516
INTRODUCTION TO TOPOLOGY
4
2
530
and
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
80414
Augmentation course in advances infinitescimal caluculus
2.5
1
530
and
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
80301
NUMERIC ANALYSIS
2
1
530
80428
GAME THEORY (1)
3
2
530
80520
COMBINATORICS
3
1
530
80779
Category Theory
2
1
530
Elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
51537
Psycho-biological Processes
3
2
143
Elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
6111
Meaning and Computation
2
2
143
6134
The highest cognition: brain mechanisms for language and arithmetic
2
2
530
6160
The computations that make us who we are.
2
1
530
6169
Animal Cognition
2
2
530
6821
Arguments for the existence of God
2
2
530
6828
NEUROPSYCHIATRY: COGNITION OF MENTAL DISORDERS5
4
1
143
6839
Fine Lines : An Interdisciplinary Seminar in Cognition, Brain and Art
2
2
530
6849
Philosophy, Cognition and Computation.
2
2
530
6859
Advanced Logic
2
1
530
6860
What is knowledge? Reading Plato
2
1
530
6861
Main topics of biological psychiatry
2
1
530
15342
Current Topics in Philosophy of Mind: the Interface between Philosophy and Science
2
1
530
15902
Perceptual Experience and Valence
2
2
530
51201
Social Psychology
2.5
1
143
51202
Developmental Psychology
2
1
143
51404
Neuropsychology
2
2
143
51415
Social Neuroscience
2
1
530
51631
The Nature and Nurture of the Social Brain
2
1
143
72368
Introduction to Evolutionary Biology
4
2
530
36602
PHONOLOGY B
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
2
143
36603
MEANING AND CONTEXT
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
4
1
143
36604
SYNTACTIC THEORY
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
4
2
143
Elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
80402
HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS
3
1
530
80428
GAME THEORY (1)
3
2
530
80644
p-adic numbers
2
1
530
80737
Introduction to Stochastic Processes
3
2
530
80424
MATHEMATICAL LOGIC (2)
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
3
2
530
Elective studies
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
67504
Algorithms
5
3
530
67521
Computational Models, Computability and Complexity
5
3
530
77313
Equations of Mathematical Physics
6
1
530
3rd Year
Compulsory studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Until year
Basic course
Teaching program
80426
Analysis on manifolds
3.5
2
0
530
80427
Functional analysis
2.5
2
0
530
80445
ALGEBRAIC STRUCTURES (1)
6
3
3
530
80316
ADVANCED INFINITESIMAL CALCULUS (2)
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
6
2
3
530
80416
Analysis on manifolds
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
4
2
0
530
80417
Functional analysis
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
3
2
0
530
Total Compulsory Points: 12
Compulsory studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Until year
Basic course
Teaching program
6119
COMPUTATION AND COGNITION
6
1
3
+
143
6124
SEMINAR PAPER
4
3
3
143
Total Compulsory Points: 10
Compulsory elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
80200
SET THEORY
3
2
530
80320
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
4
2
530
80420
PROBABILITY THEORY (1)
4
1
530
80423
MATHEMATICAL LOGIC (1)
4
1
530
80446
ALGEBRAIC STRUCTURES (2)
4
2
530
80516
INTRODUCTION TO TOPOLOGY
4
2
530
80517
MEASURE THEORY
4
1
530
80519
COMPLEX VARIABLES
4
1
530
and
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
80414
Augmentation course in advances infinitescimal caluculus
2.5
1
530
and
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
80301
NUMERIC ANALYSIS
2
1
530
80428
GAME THEORY (1)
3
2
530
80520
COMBINATORICS
3
1
530
80779
Category Theory
2
1
530
and
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
6016
Research Methods in Social Activism
4
9
143
6137
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH PROJECT IN THE LAB.
4
9
530
6147
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH PROJECT IN THE LAB.
4
9
530
51301
Experimental Psychology
4
2
530
72396
GUIDED PROJECT IN BIOL. RESEARCH - HONOR'S PROG.
5
9
530
Elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
80576
Differential Topology
2
2
530
80584
THREE DIMENSIONAL TOPOLOGY
2
1
530
80612
Topics in Analysis
2
2
530
80774
Seminar in Godel's incompleteness theorems
2
2
530
80877
TOPICS IN ALGEBRA
2
2
530
80895
Topics in quantum error correcting codes
2
1
530
80937
Group Cohomology and its Applications to Number Theory
2
2
530
Elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
67720
Metric Embedding Theory & its Algorithmic Applications
3
1
530
80302
Introduction to Mathematics research
1
1
530
80402
HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS
3
1
530
80421
PROBABILITY THEORY (2)
3
2
530
80428
GAME THEORY (1)
3
2
530
80520
COMBINATORICS
3
1
530
80539
MATHEMATICS READING COURSE - 2 CREDITS
2
1
530
80540
MATHEMATICS READING COURSE - 4 CREDITS
4
1
530
80541
MATHEMATICS READING COURSE - 3 CREDITS
3
1
530
80616
MODEL THEORY (1)
3
1
530
80625
TOPOLOGICAL DYNAMICS
2
2
530
80628
Discrete Geometry 1
6
1
530
80637
ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
4
2
530
80644
p-adic numbers
2
1
530
80657
Analysis of Boolean functions
3
2
530
80721
THE PROBABILISTIC METHOD IN COMBINATORICS
3
2
530
80737
Introduction to Stochastic Processes
3
2
530
80757
Topics in geometric measure theory
3
1
530
80787
MATHEMATICS READING COURSE - 2 CREDITS
2
2
530
80788
MATHEMATICS READING COURSE - 4 CREDITS
4
2
530
80789
MATHEMATICS READING COURSE - 3 CREDITS
3
2
530
80824
MODEL THEORY (2)
2
2
530
80869
LIE ALGEBRAS
2
2
530
80948
ALGEBRAIC GROUPS
2
2
530
80962
DESCRIPTIVE SET THEORY
3
2
530
80971
Representations of compact Lie groups and Lie algebras
3
1
530
80855
Introduction to Quantum Chaos
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
1
530
Elective studies
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
80598
FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS IN REPRESENTATION THEORY
6
2
530
80599
FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS IN COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA AND ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
6
1
530
80607
FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS IN ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY
6
2
530
80608
FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS IN DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY
6
1
530
80615
ERGODIC THEORY
3
2
530
80629
High dimensional statistics
3
1
530
80637
ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
4
2
530
80756
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY
3
1
530
80779
Category Theory
2
1
530
80869
LIE ALGEBRAS
2
2
530
Elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
51537
Psycho-biological Processes
3
2
143
Elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
6111
Meaning and Computation
2
2
530
6134
The highest cognition: brain mechanisms for language and arithmetic
2
2
530
6160
The computations that make us who we are.
2
1
530
6169
Animal Cognition
2
2
530
6821
Arguments for the existence of God
2
2
530
6828
NEUROPSYCHIATRY: COGNITION OF MENTAL DISORDERS5
4
1
143
6839
Fine Lines : An Interdisciplinary Seminar in Cognition, Brain and Art
2
2
530
6849
Philosophy, Cognition and Computation.
2
2
530
6859
Advanced Logic
2
1
530
6860
What is knowledge? Reading Plato
2
1
530
6861
Main topics of biological psychiatry
2
1
530
15342
Current Topics in Philosophy of Mind: the Interface between Philosophy and Science
2
1
530
15902
Perceptual Experience and Valence
2
2
530
51201
Social Psychology
2.5
1
143
51202
Developmental Psychology
2
1
143
51404
Neuropsychology
2
2
530
51415
Social Neuroscience
2
1
530
51631
The Nature and Nurture of the Social Brain
2
1
530
72368
Introduction to Evolutionary Biology
4
2
530
36602
PHONOLOGY B
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
2
143
36603
MEANING AND CONTEXT
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
4
1
143
36604
SYNTACTIC THEORY
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
4
2
143
Elective studies
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
67504
Algorithms
5
3
530
67521
Computational Models, Computability and Complexity
5
3
530
77313
Equations of Mathematical Physics
6
1
530
Elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
6828
NEUROPSYCHIATRY: COGNITION OF MENTAL DISORDERS5
4
1
143
34861
Introduction to Language Processing
1
1
143
34940
Read, Part A: A Fundamental Processes of Reading
3
1
143
34995
Reading - Part B: Reading, Disabilities
2
2
143
51601
Mathematical Modeling of Cognition
3
2
530
51983
Simulation Games and Processes of Negotiation
3
1
530
67548
Introduction to Information and Inference
4
1
143
67577
Introduction to Machine Learning
5
2
143
67658
Natural Language Processing
3
1
530
72369
NEUROBIOLOGY AND BRAIN SCIENCES
5
2
143
76900
From Molecules to Circuits
3
2
530
76901
Systems Neuroscience
3
1
530
76908
Dynamics of Computation in the Brain
4
2
143
76915
Information and Coding in the Brain
4
1
530
76915
Information and Coding in the Brain
4
1
530
76920
Colloquium in Brain Sciences
0
9
530
76931
Dynamical Systems and the Neuron
2
1
530
76937
The Biological Basis of Neurodegenerative Diseases
2
2
143
76949
The Degenerating Brain: From Research to Hope
2
2
530
76952
Recent Developments in Molecular Neuroscience
4
9
530
76956
Modeling Neurons and Neuronal Networks
2
2
530
80428
GAME THEORY (1)
3
2
143
51414
The Neuroscience of Empathy
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
2
530
51577
Fundamentals of Cognitive Electrophysiology
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
1
530
51871
Cognitive and Motivational (in) Consistency
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
1
530
76914
BRAIN, MUSIC AND EMOTION
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
1
1
530
76932
THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF NEURONAL PROCESSING
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
1
143
77902
Physics, Brain and Free Will
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
1
530
Scope of studies in the track
Total Point in program Mathematics
( 530)
Total Point in program Cognitive and Brain Sciences
( 143)
Compulsory in the teaching program
50
Compulsory elective
11-12
Elective in the teaching program
6-7
Total in the teaching program
67
Additional teaching program
60
Supplementary studies
7
Total for the degree (minimum)
134
years for the degree
3
3
Total percentage of tuition for the degree
300
300
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