Can I do a PhD in Mathematics with a BSc in computer Science & Software Engineering AND an MSc in Computer Science?

[lordoflight]

Well?

[redcrx]

have you considered calling the university that you are interested in and asking them.

well?

[factor-fiction]

Did you mean 'can' or 'may'?
As redcrx says, you should ask the institutions. Some, I'm sure, will be flexible; others will be very strict and require a strong maths degree.

[Buenchico]

I'd be very surprised if most universities would normally consider anyone for a PhD in Mathematics unless they'd got a 1st (or possibly a 2:1) in their initial degree (in Mathematics) and had excelled (again in Mathematics) for their MSc.

However a doctorate in Mathematics will always be a research degree, rather than a taught degree. If you could convince a university that you've got some novel ideas for developing the subject, together with sufficient knowledge to do so, it's just possible that your application might be considered. For example if, through your own studies, you'd already discovered some interplay between field theory and chaos theory which you believed nobody else had thoroughly examined, you might get the green light to study it for your PhD.

However you'll need to be able to show that there is plenty of 'depth' within what you want to study. One standard proof in current books on complex analysis was discovered by me. (I'm actually credited with it in some volumes). However 'one swallow doesn't make a summer'. There's no way that I could ever undertake a PhD in Mathematics.

Chris

[rov1200]

Having done a BSc in Computer Science I found the syllabus did not offer Mathematics in great depth although your course may be different. In fact most of the problems were related to finding numerical solutions using a variety of known techniques using computers. I hope you are successful.

[sumo19]

You can't do a PhD with a BSc in Computer S & SE and an Msc CS

Whilst they are technical subjects you have no foundation of mathematic calculus what so ever.

I do agree with Chris, I could never so a PhD in Mathematics either.