To many in the United States, advanced forms of mathematics are a terrifying maze of numbers, symbols, graphs, and hypotheticals that render our world more complex than simple observations would ...

When students are genuinely curious about new concepts and ideas, they develop their own study skills, says Professor Pekka Pankka. Geometry, Algebra, and Topology are pure mathematics and essential ...

The Math 8806-8807 sequence will cover the following topics: Group Theory (Group actions, Sylow, Nilpotent/Solvable, simple groups, Jordan-Holder series, presentations); commutative algebra ...

Dr. Das has taught a broad range of courses, from Quantitative Skills and Mathematical Reasoning to graduate-level Topology and Analysis. He has mentored over 25 capstone research projects and has ...

In the early 1960s George Gamow wrote a popular book 1 that contained a very suggestive observation about the effectiveness of pure mathematics in physics. As a conclusion he remarked that “only ...

Our Master's program in mathematics aims toward generating career options for our students in industry, government, or teaching at the community college level. Students benefit from close contact with ...

Endperiodic maps, splitting sequences, and branched surfaces. Michael Landry and Chi Cheuk Tsang. To appear in Geometry and Topology. 144 pages. A polynomial invariant for veering triangulations.

Faculty carry out research on many areas of the mathematical sciences. The department has particular strengths in Algebraic Geometry, Geometry and Topology, and Number Theory and Representation Theory ...