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Applications for faculty positions are now being accepted. For details, see Faculty Positions.


Joseph Gallian will speak on Using Mathematics to Create Symmetry patterns at this year's Halloween talk. See Gallian Talk for more information.

The Mathematics of Computer Animation

Fifty years ago, few people would have believed that the craft of animation would soon be as much about math as it is about art...
CAS Connections Newsletter/April Edition

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Behzad Jalali, CAS 81, ;86, ;04, was on the first page of a 600-page economics textbook at Leeds University in London in 1971 when panic struck.

American Weekly / 16 January 2007

Catalyst, American University’s science magazine, is designed to inform you about scientific research and results that affect us all. Catalyst is written by students, features many student projects, and aims to spark the scientific imagination of the AU community.

Welcome to the webpage of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Visit our new webzine The Discrete Observer, featuring Dan Kalman's column The Mathematical Elephant.

For information on our undergraduate, graduate and five-year programs in Mathematics and Statistics and information on how to apply, please visit our programs page.

THINKING LIKE A MATHEMATICIAN

Professor KeynesIf you add infinity plus one, does infinity get bigger? Can there be multiple infinities, of different sizes? Ask the students in Great Ideas in Mathematics.



DEPARTMENT CHAIR ASSUMES NEW POSITION

Professor Frances Van DykeA chair in Professor Frances Van Dyke's office has been moved slightly so that it has a better view of an elm tree. The chair has been a fixture in the department for 18 years.


KERWIN MUST ENROLL IN FINITE MATH PENDING INVESTIGATION

Cornelius Kerwin TENLEYTOWN - President Cornelius Kerwin is under investigation for failing to fulfill his mathematics requirement while enrolled as a student at The American University. The Chairman of the Board of Trustees Audit Committee, Thurston Fox, confirmed...

MISLEADING SIGN LEADS STUDENTS AMISS

signpost WASHINGTON, DC - A new American University campus landmark has unintentionally misdirected unsuspecting students, with potentially disastrous consequences...



Meet our new faculty member, Professor Jeff Adler

Professor Jeff AdlerWhy math? I liked mathematics even as a small child, but this is not unusual; what’s unusual is that I failed to lose interest in the fourth grade...
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