It is designed to provide sound preparation for continued study, as well as to prepare students for careers in business, government, industry, and teaching. At UNO, a wide variety of areas of mathematics is represented including Algebra, Applied Mathematics, Combinatorics, Complex Analysis, Finite and Boundary Element Methods, Graph Theory, Mathematical Biology, Numerical Analysis, Optimization, Partial Differential Equations, and Statistics. The department has a Unix network as well as a NeXT network, and they are available to students and faculty, and are linked to the Internet. The UNO Library has nearly one million volumes, and good holdings in books and journals.
Students participate in seminars, research and teaching.
Our students and faculty come from many parts of the world, with a wide variety of races, religions, and countries represented. Admission to the graduate program is by the department and the graduate school. Undergraduate preparation should include abstract algebra and advanced calculus, but they may also be taken here. The UNO mathematics department currently has 22 TA's who normally teach in math labs, assist in the computer lab, or teach college algebra. Each year, the Department awards approximately 10 BS degrees and 5 MS degrees.