The Pure Mathematics Concentration is Wright State University's standard college mathematics program. It should be selected by students who wish to study mathematics per se, rather than statistics, computing, or applications of mathematics. Students who wish to prepare for entry into the job market can do so in this program by wisely choosing the many electives.
Modern mathematics has several major branches.
The three most commonly studied by undergraduate mathematics majors are algebra, geometry and topology, and analysis. Well-prepared freshmen will have sampled parts of the first two of these in high school algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. In college, mathematics majors encounter the beginning topic in the third branch, analysis, in their calculus classes. The core courses in the Pure Mathematics Concentration for the junior and senior years are two year-long sequences in algebra and analysis. Several characteristics distinguish these and other advanced courses from more elementary ones.