Mathematics and Statistics
Website: www.ufv.ca/math
“Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.”— Joseph Fourier
What is mathematics? Anyone who has taken a science or business course knows one answer: mathematics is a language. In any discipline in which quantity plays a role (such as chemistry, economics, sociology, or engineering) mathematics is used to both communicate and reason. To make oneself understood in any such discipline, and even to comprehend our technological society, one must be able to “speak” mathematics.
Mathematics has also been called a science, the science of reason. Perhaps less familiar is the idea of mathematics as art. Mathematicians often speak of patterns and structure of their discipline as “beautiful” or “subtle”, and even calculus itself has been said to be “... like the full-rigged sailing ship, a classic expression of Western genius.”
UCFV mathematics courses cover the range from pre-college algebraic manipulation skills, through the basic calculus, linear algebra, complex variables and differential equations required to understand physics and engineering, the discrete mathematics required for computer science, to the axiomatic development of algebraic systems and analysis in degree-level mathematics courses.
UCFV statistics courses deal with the mathematical deductions of probability, experimental design, sample surveys, the analysis of real world data, and the application of simple probability models to predicting and forecasting. Courses cover the range from introductory material for students with Grade 11 math to the generalized linear models and survival analysis used in modern biomedical literature.
UCFV offers a major in mathematics, and extended minors and minors in mathematics and mathematics/ statistics as options within the Bachelor of Arts degree program. Mathematics and statistics courses taken to satisfy extended minor/minor requirements will be counted as Arts subjects. For more details on the Bachelor of Science in Mathematics option, see Bachelor of Science section in the Faculty of Science, Health, & Human Services.
Students cannot combine Mathematics with Mathematics (Statistics option) to form a Bachelor of Arts with two extended minors.
Students are encouraged to check the prerequisites for second-year and upper-level courses before enrolling in first-year math courses.
Students pursuing a minor or major degree in mathematics should note that not all courses will be offered every year. In order to increase the availability of upper-level courses students should:
(a) Take at least four 200-level mathematics courses during their second year.
(b) Take an introductory statistics course such as MATH 270 and take MATH 302 in their second or third year. Students pursuing the statistics option of a math degree should take MATH 302 in their second year.
This section specifies the mathematics major, extended minor and minor discipline requirements only. Please refer to the Bachelor of Arts section for additional BA requirements.
Mathematics major requirements
Lower-level requirements: 28–29 credits
Upper-level requirements: 30 credits
Mathematics extended minor requirements
Lower-level requirements: 28–29 credits
Upper-level requirements: 15 credits
Fifteen credits from math courses numbered 308 or above.
Mathematics minor requirements
Lower-level requirements: 14–16 credits
Upper-level requirements: 15 credits
Fifteen credits from math courses numbered 308 or above.
Mathematics (Statistics option) extended minor requirements
Lower-level requirements: 32–33 credits
Upper-level requirements: 18 credits
Mathematics (Statistics option) minor requirements
Lower-level requirements: 18–19 credits
Upper-level requirements: 18 credits
Faculty
Gillian Mimmack, BSc (Hons), MSc (Cape Town), MS, PhD (Florida State), Department Head
Velma Alford, BA, Ed. Cert. (Manitoba)
Jane Cannon, BA (Mundelein), MSTM (Santa Clara)
David Chu, BSc, MSc (Concordia), PhD (McGill)
Barry Garner, MA (Oxon), MSc, PhD (Nottingham)
Carollyne Guidera, BSc, MSc (SFU)
Camilo Martinez, BSc, MSc (Havana), PhD (Moscow)
Susan Milner, BA, BSc (Bishops), MSc (McMaster)
Linda Riva, BMath, MMath (Waterloo)
Greg Schlitt, BSc (UBC), MSc (SFU), PhD (McMaster)
Joseph Yu, BSc (Fudan), Dip. CS, MSc, PhD (SFU)
Staff
Rhonda Colwell, BA (UCFV), Department Assistant
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