THE CURRICULUM
The major starts with the Major Core, a set of ad- vanced courses in a range of fields of mathemat- ics: discrete mathematics, mathematical analysis, probability, abstract algebra and applied analysis. Students also take a course in computational mathe- matics—essential to many fields and to most applied work in business and industry—at least three elec- tive mathematics courses and two courses that allow students to present and discuss current topics in the literature. Our required capstone experience entails either a senior thesis—a sustained investigation of a complex problem—or a Clinic experience. Students can also take advantage of cooperative courses offered through The Claremont Colleges, including advanced work at Claremont Graduate University. And we still haven’t mentioned our groundbreaking joint major programs: computer science and mathe- matics and mathematical biology. You can read more about them in “Special Programs.”
MATHEMATICS
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THE PROGRAM
Thirteen engaging faculty, a long list of students publishing in major journals, a thriving Clinic Program, two innovative joint major programs—all this, and the inaugural award in 2006 for the best mathematics de- partment in the nation (by the American Mathematical Society). By every available quantitative measure, we rock. At the heart of the program is a pure, burning love for math and a broad vision of the field’s potential. An astonishing number of our graduates enter preeminent
Ph.D. programs, but they also take professional positions in finance and banking, management and tech- nology, biomedical research, education and computers.
Heard of the MCM? It’s not a luxury hotel in Vegas—it’s one of the most famous world-wide competi- tions in Modeling, a grueling 96-hour contest receiving over 2,000 entries per year. We’ve won more “Outstanding” awards than any college in the history of the competition. Another prestigious contest, the Putnam exam, attracts more than 400 college and university teams from the U.S. and Canada for a fiendishly difficult six-hour exam. HMC frequently finishes in the top ten, despite the fact that our students are competing with teams including graduate students and post-docs. HMC is the only undergraduate college to have done this in the past 30 years.
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