Mathematics

At UHart’s Department of Mathematics, our professors are invested in your success. We are here to help you reach your career goals, whether that includes business, engineering, teaching, or applying to graduate school. Our class sizes are small and collaborative, so you’ll spend time analyzing and solving real-world math problems with your classmates.

We offer three undergraduate mathematics programs:

Our Bachelor of Science in Data Science program offers two degree tracks; Computer Science/Mathematics, and Business. You study computational mathematics, statistical methods, as well as best practices in data visualization to gain skills that can be applied to a career with a variety of businesses and organizations.

The Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics combines a fundamental core of required mathematics courses with the flexibility to choose from a wide range of electives.

The Bachelor of Science in Mathematics is designed to give you an appreciation of the applications of mathematics to the sciences.

A mathematics major can be paired with various minors that complement the mathematics education and give students a competitive edge in the job market. Examples of complementary career-ready minors are Actuarial Studies through the Barney School of Business, and a minor in Computer Science through the Department of Computing Sciences.

3+1 BA in Mathematics and MS in Business Analytics

A 3+1 BA in Mathematics and MS in Business Analytics program is also offered. You take your undergraduate mathematics courses in the College of Arts and Sciences, and graduate business analytics requirements in UHart’s Barney School of Business. This accelerated program allows you to finish both degrees in the same time it would normally take to finish one, and at a reduced cost. Contact Professor and Department of Mathematics Department Chair Fei Xue for more information at xue@hartford.edu. 

The Mathematics Department offers two minors: 

A minor in mathematics is also available if you are interested in math but are majoring in other areas like computer science, physics, or biology.

You may want to consider a minor in data science if you enjoy extracting information from raw data and using it to for greater understanding and knowledge.

Research Highlights and Student Projects

Mathematical aspects of quantum information theory

Jasmin Enriquez ’27 and Assistant Professor Anastasiia Minenkova studied the mathematical aspects of quantum information theory by investigating the early state exclusion phenomenon in quantum state transfer between terminal vertices of a one-dimensional quantum spin chain. Their research has potential to shed new light on the dynamics of quantum communication systems, to provide an efficient design scheme, and to refine the quantum state transfer protocols. The findings were published in a peer-reviewed journal, marking a notable achievement for the undergraduate researcher.

Capstone Courses 

In recent years, students in our Capstone course have completed a number of projects:  

• Reverse engineered snowflake fractals by modifying generating functions in order to achieve a prescribed dimension.
• Studied different combinations of circle inversions and the fractals that resulted from those combinations.  They were able to generate image by writing a series of MATLAB codes.
• Studied the Conway Life cellular automata and many of the different objects that can arise in this universe. They also presented a proof of the "speed limit" that applies to all spaceships in this universe.

Blackjack Game Strategy

Basmalah Asad ’25 and Assistant Professor Dan Martin studied several modified versions of a Blackjack game. They designed code in Python that allowed them to compute the optimal strategy in every betting situation, as well as prove some interesting theoretical results. Both collaborators presented their results at conferences and were able to publish a research article in a peer-reviewed journal.

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