BVU Mathematics

05/08/2024

Congrats to the 2024 math grads!

03/27/2024

Samuel Armstrong has accepted a position in the Math Ph.D. program at the University of Kansas, including full financial support and a TA position - congrats Sam!

03/11/2024

Congrats to senior Evan Brincks: he will be teaching at C**n Rapids-Bayard next fall!

01/05/2024

Three junior pre-engineering majors have been working hard over break taking Jterm courses at Washington University! L to R: Keaton Kelberlau, Errol Alden, Chloe Lippert (math track)

12/13/2023

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-triplet-tree-forms-one-of-the-most-beautiful-structures-in-math-20231212/

The Markov numbers reveal the secrets of irrational numbers and the patterns of the Fibonacci sequence. But there’s one question about them that has resisted proof for over a century.

12/09/2023

Congratulations to the MATH 480 Senior Capstone students on successfully presenting their research projects. L to R: Evan Brincks, Tyler Crall, Samuel Armstrong, Brock Jordan, Alison Wardenburg, Skylar Cole

07/30/2023

There’s more — much more — to probability theory than meets the eye.

Andrei Kolmogorov, a mathematician in the Soviet Union, revolutionized the role of the "unlikely" in mathematics.

07/11/2023

I have wondered about this myself. What do you think?

Some think that math is invented. Evidence, though, points towards its discovery.

04/14/2023

Another successful BVU Math major alumnus! We’re proud of you, Nikki!

HARTLEY—The newest math teacher at Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn High School gets her kicks inside and outside the classroom.

04/14/2023

Some cool pics!

02/11/2023

Spherical cubes

Is it possible to fill space “cubically” with shapes that act like spheres? A proof at the intersection of geometry and theoretical computer science says yes.

11/24/2022

Happy Fibonacci Day!

10/22/2022

Mathematics and Chemistry double major — and now a BVU Athletics Hall of Famer!

As 2002 graduate Deborah (Zorn) Crank ’02 reflects on her induction into the BVU Athletics Hall of Fame, her first thoughts don’t revolve around her three Iowa Conference MVP

07/03/2022

03/27/2022

Congratulations to the math majors accepted to REUs this summer!

Third year Brenden Schlader will be working on the value distribution of elliptic Dedekind sums at the University of Michigan-Dearborn REU Site in Mathematical Analysis and Applications.

First year Samuel Armstrong will be working with the Clemson University Research Training Group in Coding Theory, Cryptography, and Number Theory.

03/11/2022

Pi Day fun from NASA!

Discover exciting ways to celebrate Pi Day with NASA, including free online resources and downloads for teachers, parents and institutions, plus the Pi Day Challenge, which gets students using pi like scientists and engineers!

03/08/2022

Senior math major Nikki Schuppan has accepted a high school teaching position at Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn; congratulations Nikki!

01/11/2022

Apologies for the tardiness... Congrats to the senior math majors for successfully presenting their capstone projects!

12/22/2021

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Gupta received the Ramanujan Award, announced on 10 December, in particular for her solution to the Zariski Cancellation Problem — a fundamental one in algebraic geometry.

10/16/2021

Enjoy puzzles or mathmagic? Here's a virtual conference next week:

10/02/2021

Back in the day, the entire School of Science faculty would pack up and attend this conference - now it's virtual and free!

Mission The Nobel Conference brings students, educators and members of the general public together with the leading thinkers of our time, to explore revolutionary, transformative and pressing scientific…

09/30/2021

Why? Because “Math!”; that’s why.
(Actually there’s a lot going on here….)

07/29/2021

Fun fact: Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. But eating too much pie is never a problem since the sin of pi is always zero.

06/24/2021

Shout out to Ian Grigsby for graduating from the Baylor Ph.D. program - congrats Dr. Grigsby!

Congratulations to our 2021 PhD graduates, Tavish Dunn, Ian Grigsby, Alexandra Pasi, Taylor Poe, and Jack Rebrovich. Read more to hear about their time at Baylor and their plans for the future.

05/08/2021

05/05/2021

Good Morning Storm Lake!

It's FINALS WEEK at Buena Vista University

Listen up Beavers. You're so close, don't you dare give up now!




¡Buenos días Storm Lake!

Es la semana de finales en Buena Vista University

Escuchen a los castores. Estás tan cerca de terminar. ¡No te atrevas a rendirte ahora!

05/03/2021

MATH 340 students were most recently learning about graph theory.

When you walk into a room full of people, you can speculate about all sorts of things, from political leanings to TV viewing habits. But if the room has at least six people, you can say something about them with absolute mathematical certainty, thanks to a 1930 theorem by Frank Ramsey: Among those p...

04/14/2021

Primes get curiouser and curiouser:

Despite finding no specific examples, researchers have proved the existence of a pervasive kind of prime number so delicate that changing any of its infinite digits renders it composite.