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Monday, February 26, 2024

Math Majors: Biostatistics

In this one-of-a-kind major offered by the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, students learn to analyze disease and public health data to better the public good.

Friday, February 23, 2024

Bob Moses, math activist

Moses was convinced that the next step in civil rights was educational equality.

Friday, February 16, 2024

Katherine Johnson, human computer

In 2015, President Barack Obama awarded Johnson the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of the boundaries she helped break, both in society and in space.

While we have older mathematical documents from civilizations in Egypt and Mesopotamia, the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus is the earliest surviving one where the author signed his name: making Ahmose the first named contributor to mathematics in history.