Introduction

Welcome to the Department of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)!

Our department is a separate unit of the UIUC's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Our goal is the advancement of first class research and instruction in pure and applied mathematics. We offer mathematics instruction to undergraduate students across the campus in all disciplines and have one of the largest mathematics graduate programs in the world. We offer postdoctoral training as a preparation for a career at a research university. Our faculty are interested in the investigations of the fundamental structures of logic, number, space, and dynamics, with the exploratory and processing power of technology. These investigations are guided by intellectual evolution and by the natural sciences, to which mathematics furnishes language and concepts for description, analysis, modeling and simulation.

Known for the high quality of its academic programs and the outstanding facilities and resources available to students and faculty, Illinois ranks among the world's great universities. Undergraduate education is strongly emphasized and admission is highly selective; 28 percent of the entering freshmen rank in the top 3% of their high school class. Our campus includes 205 major buildings on 1,472 acres, serving more than 2,000 faculty members, 26,000 undergraduates, and 10,000 graduate and professional students. Students from the United States and 100 countries each year enroll in programs offered by 16 colleges and instructional units. Ten alumni are Nobel laureates. Sixteen alumni are Pulitzer Prize winners. More than seventy faculty members belong to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, or the National Academy of Engineering. One faculty has won the Fields Medal in Mathematics, ten scientists have received the National Medal of Science, and more than sixty have received the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award while on the faculty. Academic resources on our campus are among the finest in the world. Our University Library has the largest collection of any public university in the nation and ranks third among U.S. academic libraries. A world leader in supercomputing design and applications, our University is home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, where twenty research groups from nearly two dozen University departments are conducting cross-disciplinary research. More facts...

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