Smith, Stephanie2011-10-072011-10-072011-10-07http://hdl.handle.net/10539/10503MSc., Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, 2011We try to develop a collective field theory of single matrix models by using the formalism of Jevicki and Sakita in [1], with Schur polynomials as our collective fields. Field operators and the relation for the change of variables required to obtain the collective field Hamiltonian are found using group representation theory.enmathematical physicsorthogonal polynomialspolynomialsThesis