What is Math?
Mathematics is a language and methodology for classifying, studying, and predicting patterns: patterns of quantity, of structure, of change, of logic. Mathematics typically encompasses applied mathematics and computational mathematics.
What does a mathematician do?
Above all else, a mathematician is a problem solver, and as a mathematics major at South Dakota Mines, you will learn to be just that.
An applied mathematician uses mathematical theory and technique to critically analyze and solve problems in business, government, engineering, and the social sciences.
Mathematics is the most popular double major at Mines.
Courses for this Degree
• Partial Differential Equations
• Advanced Linear Algebra
• Abstract Algebra
• Complex Analysis
• Data Analysis
• Design of Experiments
• Math Modeling
• Probability Theory and Statistics
• Communicating Mathematics
• Advanced Calculus
Course Curriculum
Catalog Links: Mathematics
Internships and Co-ops
At South Dakota Mines, 77% of students land internships and co-ops in their majors, earning an average salary of $20.00/hour. Some of the places our math majors have interned include:
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory at the National Wind Technology Center
• Black Hills Energy
• Dartmouth College