Year 1: Bachelor’s Degree (Licence 1)

• Mathematics: Algebra, Analysis, Probability

• Computer Science and/or Physics, Mechanics
• Professional Project: Individually supervised project by the academic advisor
• English

Year 2: Bachelor’s Degree (Licence 2)

• Mathematics: Algebra, Analysis, Probability

• Computer Science and/or Physics, Mechanics
• English

Year 3: Bachelor’s Degree (Licence 3)

• Mathematics: Linear Algebra, Numerical Methods, Metric Spaces, Integration,

Differential Calculus, Geometry
• Electives: Options in Sports, Languages, Applied Mathematics (Data Processing,
Statistics), Probability
• Professional Project: Internship in a school or research laboratory
• English

Year 1: Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics (Licence 1)

• Student Engagement
• Optional Internship

Semester 1: 30 credits

Core Courses:

1. Algebra 1: 6 credits
2. Analysis 1: 6 credits
3. Calculation Tools, Statistics: 6 credits
4. Personalization or Pre-professional Module: 6 credits
5. Introduction to Programming (50 hours: 10 hours of lectures, 40 hours of practical work)

Semester 2: 30 Credits

• Algebra 2: 6 credits
• Algebra 2 (50 hours: 50 hours of tutorials)
• Analysis 2: 6 credits
• Analysis 2 (50 hours: 50 hours of tutorials)
 • Advanced Mathematics: 6 credits
• Advanced Mathematics (50 hours: 20 hours of lectures, 30 hours of tutorials)
• Humanities: 6 credits
• English (37.5 hours: 37.5 hours of tutorials): 4.5 credits
• Expression - Communication (12.5 hours: 12.5 hours of practical work): 1.5 credits
• Personalization or Pre-professional Module: 6 credits
• Mechanics and Digital Tools for Science 2:
• Python and Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) (50 hours: 20 hours of
lectures, 30 hours of practical work)

Year 2: Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics (Licence 2)

Semester 1: 30 Credits

• Algebra 3: 6 credits
• Algebra 3 (50 hours: 15 hours of lectures, 35 hours of tutorials)
• Analysis 3: 6 credits
• Analysis 3 (50 hours: 20 hours of lectures, 30 hours of tutorials)
• Probability and Statistics 1: 6 credits
• Probability and Statistics 1 (50 hours: 15 hours of lectures, 35 hours of tutorials)
• Analysis and Computer Applications: 6 credits
• Analysis and Computer Applications (50 hours: 10 hours of lectures, 30 hours of
tutorials, 10 hours of practical work)
• Personalization or Pre-professional Module: 6 credits
• Mechanics/Scientific Computing
• Pre-professional Module AED1 - Primary Education (20 hours: 20 hours of tutorials)
• Pre-professional Module AED1 - Secondary Education (20 hours: 20 hours of tutorials)
• Algorithmics (50 hours: 15 hours of lectures, 15 hours of tutorials, 20 hours of practical
work)

Semester 2: 30 Credits

• Algebra 4: 6 credits
• Algebra 4 (50 hours: 15 hours of lectures, 35 hours of tutorials)
• Analysis 4: 6 credits
• Analysis 4 (50 hours: 20 hours of lectures, 30 hours of tutorials)
• Arithmetic and Groups: 6 credits
• Arithmetic and Groups (50 hours: 20 hours of lectures, 30 hours of tutorials)
• Humanities: 6 credits
• English: 4.5 credits
• Expression - Communication: (12.5 hours: 12.5 hours of tutorials)
• Personalization or Pre-professional Module: 6 credits
• Mechanics 4 - L-maths (50 hours: 20)
Year 3: Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics (Licence 3)

• Student Engagement
• Optional Internship
• Mirror Module for L1 Mathematics
• Mirror Module for L2 Mathematics

Semester 1: 30 Credits

• Algebra 5: (55 hours: 20 hours of lectures, 35 hours of tutorials) - 6 credits

• Normed Vector Spaces: (55 hours: 20 hours of lectures, 35 hours of tutorials) - 6 credits

Probability Module: - 6 credits

• Integration and Probability (50 hours: 20 hours of lectures, 30 hours of tutorials)

• Probability and Statistics 2 (50 hours: 15 hours of lectures, 25 hours of tutorials, 10 hours
of practical work)

Cross-Disciplinary Modules: - 6 credits

• Mathematics Cross-Disciplinary Module

• Pre-professional Module AED3 - Primary Education (20 hours: 20 hours of tutorials)
• Pre-professional Module AED3 - Secondary Education (20 hours: 20 hours of tutorials)

Mathematics Pre-professionalization: - 6 credits

• Groups and Rings (50 hours: 20 hours of lectures, 30 hours of tutorials)

• Mathematics for Teaching (50 hours: 20 hours of lectures, 30 hours of tutorials)
• Language Technologies (50 hours: 20 hours of lectures, 30 hours of practical work)
• Decision Support and Artificial Intelligence (50 hours: 20 hours of lectures, 30 hours of
practical work)
• Algorithmics, Data Structures, and Cryptology (50 hours: 20 hours of lectures, 15 hours
of tutorials, 15 hours of practical work)
• Digital Imaging and Multimedia (50 hours: 20 hours of lectures, 30 hours of practical
work)
• Continuum Mechanics (50 hours: 20 hours of lectures, 30 hours of tutorials)
• Math-Info 1 (50 hours: 15 hours of lectures, 15 hours of tutorials, 20 hours of practical
work)

Semester 2: 30 Credits

Specialization A: - 6 credits

• Numerical Analysis (53 hours: 20 hours of lectures, 33 hours of tutorials)

• Geometry (53 hours: 20 hours of lectures, 33 hours of tutorials)

Specialization B: - 6 credits
 • Hilbert Spaces (53 hours: 20 hours of lectures, 33 hours of tutorials)
• History of Mathematics (53 hours: 20 hours of lectures, 33 hours of tutorials)

Specialization C: - 6 credits

• Algebra 6 (50 hours: 20 hours of lectures, 30 hours of tutorials)

• Graph Theory (50 hours: 15 hours of lectures, 25 hours of tutorials, 10 hours of practical
work)

Cross-Disciplinary Module: - 6 credits

• Differential Calculus (50 hours: 20 hours of lectures, 30 hours of tutorials)

• Pre-professional Module AED4 - Primary Education (20 hours: 20 hours of tutorials)
• Pre-professional Module AED4 - Secondary Education (20 hours: 20 hours of tutorials)
• Data Analysis in Social Sciences and Humanities (SHS) (50 hours: 15 hours of lectures, 25
hours of tutorials, 10 hours of practical work)

Pre-professionalization: - 6 credits

• Project (6.5 hours: 6.5 hours of tutorials) - 1 credit

• General English (S6) (25 hours: 25 hours of tutorials) - 3 credits
• Advanced English (S6) (12.5 hours: 12.5 hours of tutorials)

The course descriptions for Semester 5 and Semester 6 of a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics (L3):

UE MAT5A – Linear Algebra 5 – 6 ECTS – Mandatory

• Relevant Degree: L3 Mathematics

• Hours: 20h Lectures (CM) – 30h Tutorials (TD)
• Content:
• Structure of Vector Spaces: Direct sum of n vector spaces, kernel, image, isomorphisms,
quotients of vector spaces.
• Reduction of Endomorphisms: Similarity as an equivalence relation, diagonalization,
triangularization. Invariant spaces, block decomposition, matrix polynomials, minimal polynomial,
Cayley-Hamilton theorem. Matrix exponentials.
• Bilinear Forms: Definition, orthogonality, kernel, non-degenerate forms.

UE MAT5B – Computational Tools 3 or Integration – 6 ECTS – Mandatory with Options

• Options: You can choose either MAT5B1 or M.MIM5B1.

MAT5B1 – Integration and Probability Theory
• Relevant Degree: L3 Mathematics
 • Hours: 20h Lectures (CM) – 30h Tutorials (TD)
• Content:
• Riemann Integral: Definition, integrability of piecewise continuous functions, Riemann
sums. Strict positivity. Integration over a non-compact interval.
• Set Operations: Union, intersections, inverse images, cardinality, countability.
• Lebesgue Integral: σ-algebras, measures, measurable functions. Borel sets. Lebesgue
measure (accepted construction), counting measure. Integral of non-negative measurable functions.
Theorems: Convergence Theorem (CM), Convergence Theorem (CVD), Fatou’s Lemma. Integral of real
and complex functions.
• Parameter-dependent Integrals: Continuity, C^k.
• Multiple Integrals: Product measure (monotone class). Fubini’s Theorem. Illustration:
double series. Change of variables in \mathbb{R}^n.
• Introduction to Probability
M.MIM5B1 – Computational Tools, Probability, Statistics 3
• Relevant Degrees: L3 Mathematics, L3 MIASHS
• Hours: 15h Lectures (CM) – 25h Tutorials (TD) – 10h Practical Work (TP)
• Content:
• Probability and Statistics: Random variables, pairs of variables, and random vectors.
• Recap: Random experiment, population, sample, individual, random variables.
• Recap: Probability distributions, expectation, and variance of a random variable.
• Moments, moment generating function.
• Classical Inequalities: Chebyshev, Markov, Jensen, Cauchy-Schwartz.
• Pairs of Random Variables: Joint distributions, conditional distributions, Bayes’ Theorem,
covariance, correlation, independence.
• Convolution, Characteristic Function.
• Random Vectors: Covariance matrix, correlation matrix, independence.
• Convergence of Random Variable Sequences: Convergence in probability, convergence in
distribution, Central Limit Theorem.
• Common Distributions: Exponential family, univariate and multivariate normal
distributions.
• Inferential Statistics: General framework of statistical estimation theory: parametric
models. Notion of estimator. Estimation methods: point estimation and confidence intervals. Confidence
interval calculation. Normal distribution: Confidence interval for the mean. Normal distribution:
Confidence interval for variance. Hypothesis Testing: Rejection region of a test. Errors associated with a
test. Test statistics: Student’s t-test for a mean, etc.

Bachelor’s in Mathematics - Semester 5

• UE MAT5C – Formal Calculations and Seminar – 6 ECTS – Mandatory with Options

• MAT5C1 – Formal Calculations
• Relevant Degree: L3 Mathematics
• Hours: 25h Practical Work (TP)
• Content: Utilization of the Python programming language and practice with Geogebra
software, applied to illustrating basic concepts in arithmetic, geometry, and analysis.
• MAT5C2 – Seminar
• Relevant Degree: L3 Mathematics
• Hours: 25h Tutorials (TD)
 • Content: Students conduct research in small groups on various mathematical themes
and problems, and communicate the results of these research projects to the entire group.
• UE MAT5D – Normed Vector Spaces – 6 ECTS - Mandatory
• Relevant Degree: L3 Mathematics
• Hours: 20h Lectures (CM), 30h Tutorials (TD)
• Content: Norms, balls. Equivalent norms. Topology: open and closed sets, density, limits
of sequences, continuity. Product spaces. Spaces of continuous functions. Subsequences, accumulation
points, compactness. Usual properties: closed in compacts, continuous image, intersections.
Applications: extreme value theorem, Heine’s theorem, equivalence of norms in finite dimensions.
Continuous linear applications, subordinate norm. In finite dimensions, continuity is automatic.
Connectivity, arcwise connectivity. Continuous image of a connected set. Convexity.
• UE MAT5E – Elective S5 – 6 ECTS – Mandatory with Options
• MAT5E1 – Groups and Rings
• Relevant Degree: L3 Mathematics
• Hours: 20h Lectures (CM) – 30h Tutorials (TD)
• Content: Groups: Recap on Groups and Subgroups, Cyclic Groups, Cosets, Lagrange’s
Theorem. Normal subgroups and quotient groups. Morphisms. Proof of Cauchy’s and Sylow’s theorems
in the abelian case. Abelian groups: Exponent of a group and structure theorem of finite abelian groups.
Elementary divisors and invariant factors. Group actions. Applications: Cauchy’s theorem, non-triviality
of the center of a p-group, Sylow’s theorems. Rings: Definition and basic properties. Units and zero
divisors. Subrings and ideals. Principal, prime, and maximal ideals. Examples: ideals in rings K[X] (and
Z[X]). Morphisms and quotient rings. Characterization of prime and maximal ideals in terms of quotient
structures. Product ring and Chinese remainder theorem.

Bachelor’s in Mathematics - Semester 6

• UE MAT6A – Analysis or Graph Theory – 6 ECTS – Mandatory with Options

• MAT6A1 – Analysis and Numerical Applications
• Relevant Degree: L3 Mathematics
• Hours: 15h Lectures (CM) – 30h Tutorials (TD) – 5h Practical Work (TP)
• Content: Convex functions of a real variable, continuity, and differentiability.
Characterizations. Applications to convexity inequalities. Taylor-Lagrange formula. Application to error
calculations in the trapezoidal and Simpson’s methods for integral calculation. Euler’s scheme. Function
approximation. Lagrange interpolation, error estimation. Weierstrass’s theorem on a segment, Bernstein
polynomials. Methods for solving f(x)=0: bisection, Picard’s method (u_n+1=f(u_n)), Newton’s method.
• UE MAT6B – Hilbert Spaces or History of Mathematics – 6 ECTS – Mandatory with
Options
• MAT6B1 – Hilbert Spaces
• Relevant Degree: L3 Mathematics
• Hours: 20h Lectures (CM) – 30h Tutorials (TD)
• Content: Complements on Normed Vector Spaces: Cauchy sequences, complete spaces,
seminorms, and separation. Absolutely convergent series in a Banach space. Picard’s fixed-point
theorem. Real and complex Hilbert spaces. Examples: l^2, L^2(X) with X a measured space. Projections
onto a closed convex set, orthogonal projection onto a closed subspace. Hilbert bases, Parseval’s formula
(in the separable case). Continuous linear forms: Riesz’s representation theorem. Fourier series:
definitions, coefficients. Riemann-Lebesgue lemma. Continuous theory: Dirichlet’s theorem, normal
convergence theorem. Fejér’s theorem. Weierstrass’s trigonometrical density theorem. L^2 theory:
quadratic mean convergence, Parseval’s formula, uniqueness.
UE MAT6B2 – History of Mathematics

• Relevant Degree: L3 Mathematics

• Hours: 20h Lectures (CM) – 30h Tutorials (TD)
• Content:
• Babylonian mathematics
• Greek mathematics
• The Arab world and the Renaissance (the birth of algebra)
• Mathematics in Europe during the 17th century (the birth of infinitesimal calculus)
• 19th century (development of algebra and analysis)
• 20th century (development of new theories and ideas)

Bachelor’s in Mathematics - Semester 6

UE MAT6C – Differential Calculus or Data Analysis in Social Sciences – 6 ECTS – Mandatory with Options

• Options: You can choose either MAT6C1 or M.MIM6C1.

MAT6C1 – Differential Calculus
• Relevant Degree: L3 Mathematics
• Hours: 15h Lectures (CM) – 30h Tutorials (TD) – 5h Practical Work (TP)
• Content:
• Differential Equations: Lipschitz functions on \mathbb{R} and \mathbb{R}^n. Differential
equation x{\prime}=f(t,x) on \mathbb{R}^n. Cauchy-Lipschitz theorem, maximal solutions, linear case.
Variation of the constant. Linear differential equations of order higher than 1. Linear differential systems
with constant coefficients. Connection with matrix exponentials.
• Differential Calculus: Concept of differential, link with partial derivatives. Geometric
interpretation. Mean value theorem. Second-order differential. Proof of Schwarz’s theorem for second
partial derivatives. Local study of applications with values in \mathbb{R}: Taylor-Young expansion and
second-order Taylor series, sufficient second-order condition for local extrema. Geometric
interpretation, position relative to the tangent plane.
M.MIM6C1 – Data Analysis in Social Sciences
• Relevant Degrees: L3 Mathematics, L3 MIASHS
• Hours: 15h Lectures (CM) – 25h Tutorials (TD) – 10h Practical Work (TP)
• Content:
• Objective: The objective of this course is to study descriptive statistical data analysis and
prepare for classical data analysis techniques like Principal Component Analysis (PCA) or predictive
analysis methods such as regression models. Descriptive methods for univariate, multivariate,
quantitative, and qualitative data will be studied, with a particular emphasis on the probabilistic
interpretation of the methods covered. The theoretical concepts seen in the course will be applied
during tutorials and experimented with in practical sessions. This module is a prerequisite for the “Data
Analysis” modules in the M1 SAAD and the “Advanced Data Analysis” module in the M2 SAAD programs.
• Prerequisites: Modules “Computational Tools, Probability, Statistics 2 and 3” or
equivalent. Knowledge of one of the following software: R/Python/Matlab/Scilab/Octave/SAS.
• Course Plan:
 • Descriptive Statistics: Continuous data; discrete data; binary data; description of a
univariate data sample; statistics on a univariate data sample.
• Univariate Data Analysis: Histogram: discrete variable, continuous variable; empirical
distribution function; central tendency statistics: mean, median, mode; dispersion statistics: variance,
standard deviation, interquartile range; order statistics and quantiles; QQ-plot; skewness coefficient;
kurtosis coefficient; boxplots.
• Bivariate Data Analysis: Covariance; correlation; scatter plots; contingency tables.
• Least Squares Method: Construction of the least squares estimator; properties of the
least squares estimator; linear regression case; vector formulation; equivalence with maximum
likelihood.
• ANOVA: Fixed-effects regression model; single-factor analysis; two-factor analysis.