To all York students Welcome to the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Whether you are majoring in one of our programmes, taking a course required by another programme, or taking a course for general interest, we want first to help you to learn mathematics and statistics and second to help you to enjoy the challenge of doing so. The faculty members in the Department value both the beauty and the utility of their discipline. They are dedicated to exploring and developing new ideas in mathematics and statistics, and to helping you to explore, understand, appreciate and make use of those ideas.
Ideas are much more than facts, harder to acquire, but infinitely more valuable.
This Minicalendar is intended to help you with the practical side of your studies, in particular to help you choose the programmes and courses best suited to your needs and interests. Much effort has gone into making it accurate, and it contains information not available elsewhere. The programme checklists towards the back of this publication lay out our department's programme requirements perhaps more clearly than any other York document. Achieving your goals in our courses and programmes will require your constant and active participation in them. Programmes The Department is especially keen to welcome students choosing to major in one of our many excellent programmes, through either the Faculty of Arts or the Faculty of Pure and Applied Science.