About the Mathmatics Department

This is the Pell Hall - Life Science building where most of our classes are held . We offer a variety of options for a major or minor in mathematics in our undergraduate and graduate programs. These options are designed to provide flexibility while emphasizing mathematical reasoning and problem solving, preparing the student for graduate school or a career in mathematics in secondary scool teaching, business, industry, government or academia. A person with a degree in mathematics has career options in many fields. In addition a degree in mathematics is regarded as excellent preparation for entrance to professional schools of law, medicine or business. We have an excellent record; many of our graduates are teaching in secondary schools, are employed as actuaries and computer systems analysts, and many have gone on to prestigious graduate schools, obtained Ph.D.'s and are now teaching in colleges around the country. C.W. Post is a test site for the Course I Actuarial Examination given each year in May and November.

We have fifteen full-time faculty with diverse research interests ranging over all areas of mathematics. We have small classes where faculty get to know all their students and take an interest in their progress, and faculty are always available to advise students or just to talk. Faculty and students meet informally in the office and tutoring lab during each day. Our tutoring lab is a place where students meet and find friends with similar interests. Here we offer free tutoring to students in the basic mathematics courses. The tutoring is done by upper level undergraduate and graduate students and gives them an opportunity to earn tuition remission and extra money.

We have a brand new computer lab with Pentium computers all equipped with Mathematica. Mathematics majors are encouraged to come to the lab and experiment with the software.

We have a chapter of Kappa Mu Epsilon , the national Mathematics Honor Society, at C.W. Post and one of the highlights of the spring semester is the annual dinner which takes place at a local restaurant and at which new members are inducted; this year our dinner featured a talk by one of our graduates who just recently received a Ph.D. from Stevens Institute of Technology and who is now teaching at a college in New Jersey. There is also a chapter of Sigma Xi, the national Science Honor Society, and distinguished upper level students are occasionally invited to become members.