Welcome! We're delighted to welcome you to Tübingen, and we hope this course will help you get off to a great start.
Please note: this course is offered in German only.
The mathematics preparatory course is intended for students starting one of the following Bachelor's programs in the winter semester 2026/27: Informatik, Informatik Lehramt, Bioinformatik, Medieninformatik, Medizininformatik, or Kognitionswissenschaft. The goal of the course is to refresh important foundational mathematical knowledge and to cover selected topics from the lecture "Mathematik für Informatik 1 (Analysis)" in advance, helping you get off to a good start in the winter semester 2026/27. The course also provides a great opportunity to meet fellow first-year students before the semester begins, find your way around campus, and make some initial contacts.
The course will cover the following topics:
- Elementary algebraic manipulations (e.g., simplifying and transforming expressions, equations, working with absolute values, fractions, powers, logarithms, and roots - a refresher of key concepts from school mathematics)
- Propositional logic
- Set theory
- Sum and product notation
- Proof methods
- Functions
Dates
The preparatory course begins on Thursday, October 1, 2026, and ends on Thursday, October 8, 2026. There will be no course on the weekend (October 3-4, 2026); on all other days, full-day sessions are planned.
We look forward to meeting you! If you have any questions, feel free to contact Britta Dorn.
Registration
Please register by Sunday, September 27, 2026. You will then receive all further information (group assignment, meeting point, times, etc.) by email no later than September 29, 2026.
