Benefits & Distinctions

Mathematics

The study of mathematics promotes clarity of thought and of expression.
Mathematics prepares students for graduate programs and for professional degree programs such as medicine, law, and business.
Students of mathematics acquire analytical skills that are greatly valued by potential employers.
The study of mathematics offers excellent career prospects, such as actuarial work, biostatistics, quantitative modeling, and cryptology.
Students learn from statistics professors who have real-world experience in statistical consulting for pharmaceutical companies, the United States military, environmental organizations, state social service departments, insurance companies, and other firms.

The mathematics faculty at Bucknell engages students in mathematics in all its diversity— from the routine to the highly creative, from the concrete to the abstract, and from theory to application.
Mathematics professors help students develop those habits of exact thinking, purposeful abstraction, and disciplined creativity implicit in mathematical accomplishment.
With 22 faculty members who hold a variety of interests in mathematical topics, Bucknell offers a wide range of mathematics courses.
Mathematics students at Bucknell are taught in small classes and receive close personal attention from faculty who serve as their mentors.
Mathematics majors have many opportunities to undertake special research projects under the supervision of their professors.
The Bucknell Putnam Team ranked 10th out of 515 institutions in North America in 2004.
Pi Mu Epsilon, an honorary mathematics society, and the student chapter of the Mathematical Association of America organize various social and scholarly activities, including a bi-weekly Student Colloquium Series. They invite visiting lecturers and local faculty and students to present and discuss interesting mathematics, with pizza and soda supplied.