Much of mathematics has its roots in science but the spirit of mathematical inquiry is not bound to any specific area. Mathematics is an important discipline for every educated person. All students at the university are therefore required to study some mathematics. The goal of the requirement is to strengthen the student's imaginative and deductive powers through the discipline imposed by rigorous mathematical thinking. The precise use of language and logic characteristic of mathematics is developed in the courses which the student may select to meet the core requirement. The concentration consists of five courses. The core of the Applied Mathematics Concentration is made up of the three courses: Calculus III (Math 2412), Linear Algebra (Math 3310), and Applied Mathematics (Math 4315). Fundamental to modern applied mathematics is the study of structures known as vector spaces and the linear operations on those spaces. The student is introduced to these concepts in linear algebra. These ideas are expanded in Calculus III where the linearity and multidimensionality introduced in linear algebra are combined with the infinite processes of calculus. These concepts continue to be drawn together in Applied Mathematics, where the analogy is completed between discrete problems, continuous one-dimensional problems, and continuous multi-dimensional problems.