MAJOR

Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

Major

Overview

A program that focuses on the scientific and mathematical formulation and evaluation of the physical laws governing, and models describing, matter-energy phenomena, and the analysis of related experimental designs and results. Includes instruction in classical and quantum theory, relativity theory, field theory, mathematics of infinite series, vector and coordinate analysis, wave and particle theory, advanced applied calculus and geometry, analyses of continuum, cosmology, and statistical theory and analysis.

Leaders Who Majored in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

Jeremy England

Biophysicist,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)