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The Mathematics Major and Minor at Davidson

The study of mathematics offers a unique and important way of interpreting the world around us, bringing accuracy and rigor to the quest for discovering patterns in observations both abstract and concrete. 

The Mathematics and Computer Science Department intends for majors to acquire a broad and solid base in mathematics enabling both further study and application, and we aim to provide an outstanding undergraduate environment of courses and opportunities. 

We nurture mathematical, computational, and algorithmic points of view in students embarking on a liberal education, desiring skills for other endeavors, and pursuing contemporary ideas in mathematics and computer science.

Students interested in declaring a mathematics major should fill out the Mathematics Major Declaration Form. Survey responses will be used to match students with faculty advisors. This matching will happen at the beginning of each month during the semester.

Students interested in declaring a mathematics minor submit the Mathematics Minor Declaration Form (PDF) to the department chair.

Courses You Might Take

MAT 210 | CSC 210
Mathematical Modeling

This course is a survey of discrete mathematical and computational modeling techniques and their application to the natural and social sciences. Emphasis is on formulating models, investigating them analytically & computationally and communicating the results. Course is cross-listed for MAT 210 and CSC 201.

MAT 230
Sets and Proofs

This course is an introduction to proof techniques (including quantifiers and induction), elementary set theory, abstract functions, infinite cardinalities, and properties of sets of real numbers; followed by an introduction to topics chosen from topology, analysis, dynamical systems, or set theory, among others. Emphasis throughout is on developing abilities in writing proofs.

MAT 325
Graph Theory

This course offers a rigorous introduction to graph theory including the study of trees, connectivity, graph distances, adjacency matrices, Euler tours, Hamiltonian cycles, matchings, graph colorings, planarity, Euler characteristic, directed graphs, network flows, algorithms and extremal problems.

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