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 Pekka Pankka, professor and teacher in the specialization. Geometry, Algebra, and Topology ...

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 ...

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 ...