About Mathematics

"Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit"

~Stefan Banach

The word mathematics comes from the Greek μάθημα (máthēma), which in the ancient Greek language means "that which is learnt", "what one gets to know", and in modern Greek just "lesson".The earliest uses of mathematics were in trading, land measurement, painting and weaving patterns and the recording of time. Aristotle defined mathematics as "the science of quantity", and this definition prevailed until the 18th century. From the start of the 19th century the study of mathematics increased in rigor and diverted into many direction such as abstract, computational etc. C. F. Gauss (1777-1855) referred to mathematics as “The queen of all sciences”.
Now-a-days, mathematics is essential in many fields, including natural science, engineering, medicine, finance and the social sciences. Applied mathematics has led to entirely new mathematical disciplines, such as statistics and game theory. Mathematicians also engage pure mathematics or mathematics for its own sake, without having any application in mind.
Students of Mathematics under the Pure & Applied Science Department are very much meritorious, talented and hard working. They are disciplined and polite to the teachers. Students are curious to know the subject deeply. Their questioning mind helps them to develop the ideas of mathematics. At the end of their courses most of them are given special care under the observance of the faculty members to appear in the national level competitive exams like JAM, NET, SET etc. The students get the opportunity of attending seminars and invited lectures addressed by eminent mathematicians, faculty members from different Universities, professors from other institutes and speakers from other areas of interest. The students of this department themselves arrange some presentation classes to deliver lectures on their chosen topics. It helps them to understand topic clearly.