Welcome to the Department of Mathematics at the University of Southern California. Please explore our Web site to learn more about the unique research and educational opportunities we offer, from the Arzela-Ascoli Theorem all the way to Zorn's Lemma and the Zeta Function, and everything else in between! We are confident that you will agree that USC College is a special and exciting place for study and research in the mathematical sciences.
Gary Rosen, Chair
World-renown Professor Eric Friedlander named first holder of the Dean’s Chair in Mathematics...
Professor Susan Friedlander, a leading expert in nonlinear partial differential equations and fluid dynamics, signs on as Director of the Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences (CAMS)...
Professor Jin Ma, formerly of Purdue University, accepts appointment to Director of the department’s program in Financial Mathematics...
Along with both strength and depth in the more traditional subspecialties of pure mathematics — algebra, geometry, topology and analysis — our faculty includes internationally recognized groups in stochastic analysis and financial mathematics, bioinformatics and genomics, and interdisciplinary applied mathematics
The department has graduate programs leading to master’s and Ph.D. degrees in pure and applied mathematics and offers specialized professional master’s degrees in financial mathematics, bioinformatics and statistics. In addition, we have undergraduate programs leading to Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science in both mathematics and applied mathematics, and we offer a combined undergraduate degree in mathematics and economics. Our progressive degree programs enable exceptionally well-prepared students to pursue a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in mathematics simultaneously. We also offer a minor in mathematics.