The Vatican Astronomer

On Monday, February 25, Br Guy Consolmagno, SJ, PhD will give the Ignatius of Loyola Lecture at 4:00 p.m. at the Crown Center Auditorium. Brother Consolmagno is a research astronomer and physicist at the Vatican Observatory.

Nobel winner says maths counts

Mathematics is one of the most important subject that we teach in school.  The high-tech jobs of the future will require mastery of not only elementary subjects like algebra and geometry, but of advanced mathematical topics like calculus, discrete mathematics, and statistics.  If mathematics is truly that crucial for finding a well-paying job in the [...]

Special Lecture on q-Counting

Richard Askey delivers lecture on q-extensions of binomial coefficients, the gamma function, and more.more

Loyola Cubed

Math Club teaches Loyola faculty and students how to solve Rubik's Cube.more

Special Lecture on Geometry and Math Education

Zalman Usiskin delivers lecture on the shape of geometry in the high school curriculummore

Dangerous Intersection

Catastrophe theory is a subbranch of an area of mathematics called bifurcation theory, which itself is a subdiscipline of dynamical systems theory.  Catastrophe theory was founded by the famous French mathematician Rene Thom (1923 – 2002) in the late 1960′s, and became very popular in the 1970′s.  Catastrophes are essentially bifurcations (or splits) between points [...]

Literary Takes on Mathematical Intuition

In the very excellent (stats centric) blog Quomodocumque, we find a nice quotation from David Foster Wallace about mathematical intuition, which he compares to James Joyce’s heady notion of epiphany and Yeats' "the click of a well-made box." more

Pop Quiz: Is Algebra Necessary?

Andrew Hacker is "dead wrong"more

Computer Proof of Feit-Thompson Theorem

The Feit-Thompson Theorem is the result that every group of odd order is solvable. The original proof was 255 pages!

Older News

Departmental news and accolades from previous semesters more