Berry’s broad-based mathematics major is designed to prepare you for graduate study or a professional career. You also can earn a degree to teach mathematics in grades 6-12. In your first two years as a math major you’ll get a solid foundation of calculus, differential equations and linear algebra, as well as an introduction to proof. Then you’ll study abstract algebra, real and complex analysis, and other electives. Faculty members also teach “special topics” courses. Subjects that have been offered or are under consideration include topology, combinatorics, knot theory, differential geometry, chaos theory, fractal geometry, graph theory and functional analysis. In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to take directed-readings courses in areas that are of particular interest to you. Students have studied partial differential equations, number theory and topology. They also have prepared to take the mathematics GRE subject test and the first actuarial exam.

Learning outside the classroom–and while you earn!

You’ll have several options outside the classroom to advance your mathematics education. Opportunities include:

• Working with faculty members on research projects. Recent subject areas have included number theory, dynamical systems, geometry and complex analysis.
• Working in the mathematics tutoring lab, earning extra money as you explain mathematics to others.
• Helping to plan and implement regional mathematics competitions for middle-school and high-school students.
• Joining mathematics professional organizations and honor societies, including a chapter of the Kappa Mu Epsilon mathematics honor society and a student chapter of the Mathematical Association of America.
• Joining the Georgia Council of Teachers of Mathematics, if you are a mathematics education major.
• Attending annual professional meetings with members of the faculty.

Scholarships are available

Outstanding upperclass students are eligible for special mathematics scholarships, including the:

• Barton Mathematics Award.
• Hubert McCaleb Memorial Scholarship.
• Mary Alta Sproull Scholarship.

Graduate study

Berry College mathematics graduates have gone on to graduate school at Duke University, the University of Virginia, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Georgia Tech, Georgia State, The University of Georgia, Auburn University, Syracuse University, Tulane, Clemson and Harvard.

Whom may I contact for more information?
Dr. Lee Clendenning
Department Chair
lclendenning@berry.edu
(706)236-2264

Dr. Steve Benzel
sbenzel@berry.edu
(706)236-2268

Dr. Carla Moldavan
cmoldavan@berry.edu
(706)290-2668

Dr. Eric McDowell
emcdowell@berry.edu
(706)290-1745

Dr. Ron Taylor
rtaylor@berry.edu
(706)290-2677