Mathematics
The study of mathematics as a deductive science will couple your fascination with numbers with a rewarding career.
A thorough understanding of mathematics has never been more in demand. Whether you're interested in the natural sciences, actuarial science, computer science, engineering, economics, or finance, your knowledge of pure or applied mathematics is a critical—and very desirable—asset. Our courses will increase your computational facility, develop your appreciation for the abstract structures and reasoning at the heart of mathematics, and enhance your ability to apply mathematics to real-world problems. You'll also have the opportunity to gain experience with current mathematical software and technology, study computational mathematics, and develop expertise in financial mathematics.
Common Final Exams
To help you prepare and study for final exams, check out the Common Final Exams page, where we have posted prior final exams for the following courses: MATH 1011 (Precalculus Mathematics), MATH 1021 (Precalculus Mathematics A), MATH 1026 (Precalculus Mathematics B), MATH 1201 (Calculus-1), and MATH 1206 (Calculus-2). We have posted prior final exams for MATH 1401 (Elementary Mathematics From an Advanced Standpoint).
Faculty Search
We are looking for high-quality adjuncts to teach courses from college algebra onward. We offer courses six days a week at different times and modalities, so if think you might want to teach for us, e-mail your CV to the department chair.
Math News
May 2022
Assistant Professor Heidi Goodson was an invited speaker at the DIAMANT Symposuim in Utrecht, The Netherlands. She presented her research in a talk entitled "Sato-Tate Groups in Dimension Greater than 3"
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Diana Hubbard who was awarded a 2022 Claire Tow '52 Award for Excellence in Teaching. This annual award is given to five Brooklyn College faculty members in recognition of their demonstrated excellence in teaching-related activities.
Professor Jun Hu published a peer-reviewed paper this month: "Cubic rational maps with escaping critical points, Part I: Julia set dichotomy in the case of an attracting fixed point" with Arkady, Etkin, Hu. Qual. Theory Dyn. Syst. 21, 70 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12346-022-00593-y
Professor Jun Hu was awarded a PSC-CUNY grant entitled "Regularity in parameter space for one-parameter family of cubic rational maps, and more on Douady-Earle extension of circle homeomorphism with one-point differentiability" for the academic year 2022-2023. Congratulations!
April 2022
Associate Professor Christian Benes was awarded a PSC-CUNY grant entitled "Moderate and Large Deviations for d-Dimensional Simple Random Walk" for the academic year 2022-2023. Congratulations!
Assistant Professor Heidi Goodson was awarded a PSC-CUNY grant entitled "Twisting Sato-Tate groups" for the academic year 2022-2023. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Diana Hubbard who was recently awarded two grants.
- National Science Foundation grant entitled "LEAPS-MPS: Braids and Mapping Class Groups: Investigating Left-orders, Twisting, and Positivity". The grant, in the amount of $122,662, will support her research for two years (July 2022 - June 2024).
- PSC-CUNY grant entitled "Left-orders and twisting: from braids to mapping class groups" for the academic year 2022-2023.
March 2022
Assistant Professor Heidi Goodson is a Visiting Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany. Her visit will span the months of March and April of the spring 2022 semester and her research project is titled "Sato-Tate Distributions of Jacobian Varieties."
Professor Jun Hu published a peer-reviewed paper: Jun Hu and Francisco G. Jimenez-Lopez on Teichmuller spaces of nondiscrete groups has appeared in Annales Fennici Mathematici 47(1): 381-393, 2022 (Doi: 10.54330/afm.114460).
Associate Professor Sandra Kingan published a review of the book "Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football," by John Urschel and Louisa Thomas in the March-April AWM newsletter. (AWM Newsletter 13, Volume 52, Number 2 March–April 2022, page 12-14.)
The Mathematics Department together with the Math Club is hosting a Pi Day celebration *in person* on March 15 from 1:15-2:15 p.m in 1310 Ingersoll Hall. The event will feature a short presentation by Assistant Professor Diana Hubbard, an integration bee, a "pi-ku" writing contest (https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/03/pi_day.html), prizes galore, and free pizza and dessert pie. Please join us!
February 2022
Senior mathematics major Avraham Radin participated in the 82nd William Lowell Putnam Competition -- the pre-eminent mathematics competition for undergraduates in the United States and Canada. Avraham was one of 2,975 participants and he scored above the median. Congratulations!
Professor Stephen Preston published a peer-reviewed paper this month: Preston, S.C. Solar models and McKean’s breakdown theorem for the 𝜇CH and 𝜇DP equations. Mathematische Annalen (2022).
January
Associate Professor Diogo Pinheiro recently published a peer-reviewed article - "Refinement of Dynamic Equilibrium using Small Random Perturbations." (with (A. Araujo, W. Maldonado, D. Pinheiro, A.A. Pinto, M. Choubdar Soltanahmadi). International Journal of Economic Theory, 17 (2021) 258-283.
The Mathematics Department Prize Exams will be in-person again this semester after a one-year hiatus. The exam will take place on February 25, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., in Ingersoll 1146. Please sign up by the end of Friday, February 18. More details here.
Contact Information
Department Chairperson: Professor Jeff Suzuki
E: BCMathDept@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Location: 1156 Ingersoll Hall
P: 718.951.5246
F: 718.951.4674
Advisement
For all undergraduate class permissions, department consent, or advising, please use the Advisement Requests form.
Placement into Precalculus, Math 1011 or 1012
If you have been placed into Math 1006, College Algebra, but you believe you would be better placed in Precalculus, Math 1011 or Math 1012, please read about how to take the Mathematics Department's placement exam.
