BA/BS in Mathematics

Mathematics at Bowdoin is presented as a community of scholars and students united by curiosity about the subject. Research and teaching cover a wide spectrum, running from number theory through cryptography and on to machine learning, with links to many other departments around campus. The undergraduate program is broad and mature, and it gives weight both to abstract theory and to applications, treating the interaction between them as central to the discipline. Because the major is the third most popular at the college, the department has enough committed students to run a number of specialized, upper-level courses. The department works from the Searles Science Building. It also takes part in campus initiatives involving artificial intelligence, where students have received summer funding to work alongside faculty or staff, on projects meant to serve the public. Prospective majors can contact the college for current course offerings.