Mathematics

Description of the program

Anderson University provides an outstanding education for students preparing for a career in mathematics. The Department of Mathematics is committed to providing a quality education integrated with caring and personal attention within the framework of a Christian liberal arts environment. Students are mathematically trained for positions in education, business, government, and industry. Furthermore, students are prepared for graduate study in mathematics, statistics, computer science, economics, and other disciplines that are mathematically based.

The program has three major objectives: to provide the non-specialist with some understanding of the contributions of mathematics to cultural development; to offer students in natural, social and behavioral sciences the mathematics necessary for understanding their own fields of interest; and to prepare mathematics majors for graduate study, for teaching at the secondary level, or for work in business and industry.

Majors

Mathematics
Computer Science – Mathematics
Mathematics – Economics
Mathematics Teaching

Minors

Mathematics

Facilities

Departmental facilities include four faculty offices, a mathematics seminar room, and a teaching computer laboratory shared with the Department of Computer Science. Office and laboratories are equipped with Windows-based microcomputers and communication links to the college computing network, a local Microsoft 2000 Network, and the internet. The library has been developed to include the materials that are recommended by the Mathematical Association of America. Microcomputers in the laboratory are equipped with Maple® and Matlab® mathematics software packages for student and instructional use.

Graduate School

All students who have prepared for and applied to study mathematics and/or statistics at the graduate level have been accepted into a program and have received remitted tuition and teaching or research assistantships.

Honors

The Indiana Gamma Chapter of Kappa Mu Epsilon, a national undergraduate mathematics society, was chartered at Anderson University in 1957 and lists 309 past and present members.

Faculty

Stanley Laverne Stephens
Professor of Mathematics
Chair, Department of Mathematics
B.A., Anderson University;
M.S., Ph.D., Lehigh University [1971]

Darrel Annan Austin
Associate Professor of Mathematics
B.A., Mid-America Nazarene College;
M.S., University of Michigan;
D.A., Illinois State University [1986]

Paul Wayne Saltzmann
Professor of Mathematics
B.S., Anderson University;
M.S., University of Illinois [1959]

Kenneth Vernon Turner, Jr.
Professor of Mathematics
Director, Statistics
B.A., Anderson University;
M.A., Ball State University;
Ph.D., Purdue University [1966]

Date in [] indicates year first appointed to AU full-time faculty.