From Accounting to Zoology, wherever there is a need to quantify and analyse, there is an application of Mathematics or its close ally Statistics.

 

Mathematics provides the language and means to understand the quantitative nature of many areas of knowledge. It's not surprising that students often combine Mathematics with other subjects from the physical, applied, biological or social sciences, or from commerce and the humanities.

 

This major is available for the Bachelors of Arts (BA) and Science (BSc) respectively.

 

Many people study Mathematics simply because they like it and find it fascinating.

 

It's a subject with a strong cultural element, encapsulating much of the history of scientific discovery from Greek geometry to the modern era of fractals, chaos and cryptography.

 

Graduates have very marketable skills: clear thinking and deductive reasoning are valuable in all areas of modern life.

 

Graduates find work in government departments and agencies and in commercial and industrial companies in NZ and overseas.

 

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For advice please contact a University Liaison Officer.

 

Email: maths@otago.ac.nz

 

Write to or visit:

Department of Mathematics & Statistics

2nd floor, Science III Building

University of Otago

PO Box 56, Dunedin