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Sample Qualifying Exams

Sample Qualifying Exams

Some old departmental qualifying exams are available here (all links are PDF’s)

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Some old qualifications questions from 1990-2002 [PDF]
Some PDF files of questions arranged by topics.

  • ODE
  • complexity
  • algebra
  • algebra
  • PDE’s
  • C* algebras
  • topology
  • probability
  • algebraic geometry
  • differential topology
  • geometry
  • representation theory
  • algebraic topology
  • dynamics

Collected by Danny Calegari and Tom Coates.

  • groups
  • semigroups
  • banach spaces
  • fluid mechanics
  • manifolds
  • combinatorics
  • foundations
  • measure theory
  • commutative algebra
  • galois theory
  • noncommutative rings
  • universal algebra
  • complex analysis
  • game theory
  • numerical analysis
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