Mathematics & Computer Science at Wesleyan

The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Wesleyan University will host a conference, on model-theoretic algebra, in honor of the retirement of Carol Wood, the Edward Burr Van Vleck Professor of Mathematics.  Starting the afternoon of Friday, May 31 and continuing through Saturday, June 1, the conference will feature lectures by John Baldwin, Zoe […]

The fifth annual Regional Undergraduate Mathematics Competition at CCSU will be held this Saturday, April 13, 2013. The test will be administered in two parts, each two hours long. There will be a one-hour break with a free pizza lunch in the middle. Students will have the opportunity to work on challenging and interesting problems, […]

Students may be interested in the following Math Club talk, tomorrow at noon. Dan Cranston, Virginia Commonwealth University Bertrand’s Postulate states: For every positive integer , there is some prime number with . This result was conjectured in 1845 by Joseph Bertrand, who verified it for al less than 3 million, and it was proved […]