PHYSICS 231A · PHYS 231AMethods of Mathematical Physics
Physics · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Widely used mathematical methods and their applications to physics including basic topology, complex analysis, Fourier analysis, elliptic functions, linear differential operators, Green functions, and special functions associated with eigenvalue problems of ordinary and partial differential operators on flat and curved spaces.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
PHYSICS 231A
- PHYSICS 231BMethods of Mathematical Physics
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.