Kennesaw State University Department of Mathematics

04/14/2025

The final Math Stinger of the semester is out! Visit https://bit.ly/CSM-MathStingers to see if you can solve Math Stinger #171.

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04/10/2025

We spent this past Monday and Tuesday at the Tellus Science Museum's Spring Break Full STEAM Ahead event celebrating all things mathematics! Guests of the event participated in Möbius strip and fold-and-cut activities, coin-flipping experiments, mathematical puzzles and games on Monday, and polygon tic-tac-toe, graph coloring, and a fun with numbers theory activity on Tuesday! We also gave away posters of famous mathematicians, math coloring books, and other goodies to everyone who visited.

A special thanks to interim chair Dr. Erik Westlund, Dr. Tad Watanabe, Dr. Tsz Chan, Irina Pashchenko, Feray Aktas, and KSU student volunteers for taking time out of their week to hopefully inspire the next generation of mathematicians!

04/04/2025

A new Math Stinger is out!

Math Stinger #170: Two positive real numbers have their sum less than their product. Prove that their sum is greater than 4.

Comments are turned off to avoid spoilers! Learn how to submit the answer at https://bit.ly/CSM-MathStingers

03/27/2025

We had a great time at the Math Mixer yesterday! Students connected with their fellow math majors & minors, received course selection tips, and tackled some math problems. Thanks to everyone who stopped by!

03/25/2025

Our own Dr. Eric Stachura will speak at a new Analysis and Applied Mathematics Seminar tomorrow!

🔗https://bit.ly/CSM_AAM

03/21/2025

Are you a declared math major? Curious about how to earn a math minor? Want to meet other majors/minors?

Then this math mixer is for you! Join us for information about the math major/minor, help with course selection, Putnam Exam problems, light refreshments, and more!

📅 Wednesday, March 26th
🕑 2:00 pm — 3:00pm
📍 Mathematics Building (M), D-249

03/20/2025

Join us for a new Mathematics Colloquium tomorrow!

🔗https://bit.ly/CSM_MathColloq

03/19/2025

Join us for a new Analysis and Applied Mathematics Seminar tomorrow!
🔗 https://bit.ly/CSM_AAM

03/12/2025

The College of Science and Mathematics is excited to announce the appointment of Dr. Erik Westlund as the next Chair of the Department of Mathematics. Dr. Westlund has spent the last year as interim chair of Mathematics and will join the CSM leadership team permanently starting July 1, 2025. He brings the right balance of innovation and continuity needed for the department to thrive.

“I am deeply honored and excited by the opportunity to continue to collaboratively lead and serve a truly incredible department that showcases excellence and growth in teaching, research, and service,” said Dr. Westlund. “We have so much to look forward to as our institution matures and elevates in prominence; I am delighted to be part of it.”

Dr. Westlund received his B.S. in Mathematics from Northland College and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences from Michigan Technological University. His research area is algebraic and extremal graph theory and best practices in undergraduate mathematics education. Dr. Westlund came to KSU in 2011 as an assistant professor and was promoted with tenure to Associate and then full Professor.

The college would also like to thank the search committee for their hard work and dedication over the past several months in selecting the new chair.

03/06/2025

Join us for a new Mathematics Colloquium tomorrow!

🔗 https://bit.ly/CSM_MathColloq

03/05/2025

A new Math Stinger is out!

Math Stinger #169: Suppose f(x) is a continuous function from the interval [0, 2025] to the interval [0, 2025] and f(f(x)) = x for all x in [0, 2025]. Explain why f(x) has to be either a strictly increasing or a strictly decreasing function.

Comments are turned off to avoid spoilers! Learn how to submit the answer at https://bit.ly/CSM-MathStingers

03/04/2025

Join us for a new Analysis and Applied Mathematics Seminar tomorrow, followed by a new Discrete Math Seminar!

🔗 https://bit.ly/CSM_AAM

🔗 https://bit.ly/CSM_DMS

02/21/2025

We will host several College Algebra Factoring Success Camps next week to prepare current students for upcoming college algebra modules and future math courses.

Visit the link below to view the dates and times for the camps.

Join one of the upcoming success camps hosted by the Department of Mathematics to brush up on your factoring skills. You will need these skills in upcoming College Algebra (MATH 1111) modules as well as future math courses.

02/20/2025

Join us tomorrow for a new Math Colloquium!

🔗https://bit.ly/CSM_MathColloq