Welcome

By studying mathematics, you make yourself a better thinker, an acute observer, and a skilled problem solver.

By studying mathematics at Furman, you will be a part of a community of people who value not only the field itself, but also liberal arts education and the many enriching opportunities that such an education provides.

Browse our site, and see what the Department of Mathematics at Furman has to offer!

The Furman diamond, expressed mathematically.
A fractal banner outside of the mathematics building.
Riley Hall, home of the Mathematics Department.
Mathematics students enjoy a night at the ball park.
Students work together in the Mathematics Resource Center.

Explore the Department

Learn about student research projects going on at Furman.

Find out what you can do with a degree in mathematics

Look over the current schedule of math courses being offered

Read about how math is
playing a role in the world

One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity.
-Josiah Willard Gibbs
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
-Blaise Pascal
To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess.
-Paul R. Halmos
Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
-Alfred North Whitehead
The imaginary number is a fine and wonderful recourse of the divine spirit, almost an amphibian between being and not being.
-Gottfried Whilhem Leibniz
Source: Furman University Mathematical Quotations Server

Our Faculty

Dr. Jane Doe

Professor

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Our Alumni

Jane Doe

Former student

I loved that the classes were small enough so that everyone had a voice and nobody got left behind.