Bachelor of Arts - Mathematics - Pure Mathematics - Transfer Opportunity in Year 2

Pure mathematics is the study of the beauty and power of mathematics. All areas in this dynamic discipline demand high standards and encourage independent, critical, and creative thinking.

Students in the Pure Mathematics concentration explore the whole spectrum of mathematics, including such areas as algebra, number theory, analysis, geometry, and topology. Some topics have been explored thoroughly for centuries, while many new seeds of mathematics are being born around us even today. Advanced courses in the subject areas reveal and explain many interesting mathematical truths that few people ever see, and entice and inspire mathematics enthusiasts to explore even deeper into the mysteries that it has to offer.

Carrier Outcome:

Many pure mathematics graduates go on to graduate school in one of the mathematical, statistical, or computer sciences. Many others enter the workplace and apply their mathematical expertise and skills in abstraction to problems in research, industry, business, or government.

For example, the National Security Agency (NSA) hires countless experts in the field of number theory to perform highly specialized activities to protect United States information systems and produce foreign intelligence information. NSA mathematicians design and analyze complex algorithms, express difficult cryptographic problems in mathematical terms, and find solutions or demonstrate that no solution exists, given certain computational limitations and time constraints.