MATH 42
Introduction to Data-Driven Mathematical Modeling: Life, Universe, and Everything
Mathematics · 4 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Introduction to data-driven mathematical modeling combing data analysis with mechanistic modeling of phenomena from various applications. Topics include model formulation, data visualization, nondimensionalization and order-of-magnitude physics, introduction to discrete and continuous dynamical systems, and introduction to discrete and continuous stochastic models. Examples drawn from many fields and practice problems from Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
P/NP or letter grading.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 31A, 31B, 32A, 32B, 33A, one statistics course from Statistics 10, 12, 13, one programming course from Computer Science 31, Program in Computing 10A, Statistics 20.
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MATH 42
- MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
- MATH 1Precalculus
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- COMPTNG 10AIntroduction to Programming
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
MATH 42
- MATH 118Mathematical Methods of Data Theory
- MATH M148Experience of Data Science
- STATS M148Experience of Data Science
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.





