MATH 4545 — Fourier Series and PDEs
4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureusually offered: fall, springtypical days: FBostonTraditional
Provides a first course in Fourier series, Sturm-Liouville boundary value problems, and their application to solving the fundamental partial differential equations of mathematical physics: the heat equation, the wave equation, and Laplace’s equation. Green’s functions are also introduced as a means of obtaining closed-form solutions.
Prerequisites
- one of:
- MATH 2351 (min D-)
- MATH 2341 (min D-)
- MATH 315M
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2023 | 1 | 32 | 32 | 100% | 0.0 |
| Spring 2024 | 1 | 46 | 48 | 96% | 2.0 |
| Fall 2024 | 1 | 40 | 40 | 100% | 0.0 |
| Spring 2025 | 2 | 60 | 60 | 100% | 0.0 |
| Fall 2025 | 1 | 37 | 38 | 97% | 1.0 |
| Spring 2026 | 2 | 59 | 60 | 98% | 0.5 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 25% · T 22% · W 39% · Th 12% · F 75%
Common patterns: WF (39% of sections), TF (22% of sections), F (15% of sections), M (14% of sections), MR (12% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Fall
- Prasanth George (100% of students) · reviews
Spring
- Solomon Jekel (100% of students) · reviews
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
Links
Official catalog (MATH course descriptions) · Student reviews on RateMyHusky · All MATH courses · Plan it at numap.app