This option presents an opportunity for the student to combine training in mathematics or statistics at the research level with significant interaction with other fields which use mathematics or statistics as a tool. The dissertation includes the development and application of mathematics or statistics in the context of problems arising in the student's chosen interdisciplinary area. A Comprehensive Examination must be passed in Real Analysis and in two more subjects chosen from the combined lists under the mathematics and under the statistics option. This option is designed to prepare the student to teach undergraduate mathematics in two and four year colleges and universities. This program is less specialized than the other three options.
Students receive a broad training in pure and applied mathematics.
The dissertation in this option includes exposition of important mathematical theories and their historical relationships in an area of mathematics of the student's choosing. Completion of a Teaching Internship is required, which consists of a supervised teaching experience in two courses at or above the 2000 level. The Comprehensive Examination requirements for this option are the same as for the mathematics option.