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The Department of Mathematics at Furman University offers undergraduate degrees in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Mathematics-Economics.

10/30/2026

Happy Halloween from the Math Department! 🎃 Kudos to the winners of the costume contest (in various categories) - Aidan Barnard, Rob Duke, Virginia St. Clair, and Drs. Millichap, Hutson, Hawthorne, and Bednar! Thanks to MSAB and Mickey for helping to organize the event!

10/29/2026

It was great to see Dr. Tucker Smith ’18 back on campus this week! The Economics Department invited him as the Hollingsworth Visiting Scholar and he gave a CLP on “Generative AI Impacts on Recent College Graduates” during his visit. Tucker was a Mathematics-Economics major during his time at Furman, earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Vanderbilt, and works as a Research Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas. Thanks for sharing your experiences with our students!

10/24/2026

It’s a beautiful day to welcome alumni back to campus for Furman’s Bicentennial Homecoming! 😎💜🤍

10/22/2026

Happy birthday to our wonderful department assistant, Mickey Fray! 🥳

10/21/2026

Kudos to Applied Mathematics and Neuroscience double major Julia Torres ’28 for presenting her neuroscience research work at the SoCon Undergraduate Research Forum held at Wofford College. She won 1st place in the STEM poster competition for the work she did with Dr. Veronica Flores and her research team this summer!

10/14/2026

Kudos to Rhodes Feild ’27, Long Nguyen ’28, and Dr. Casey Hawthorne who recently traveled to the Psychology of Mathematics Education-North America conference held at Brigham Young University where they presented their research work on factoring quadratics.

10/07/2026

Professor Stuart Boersma from Central Washington University recently gave a CLP talk on the prohibition-era codebreaking work of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, one of the founding figures in American cryptology. Professor Boersma shared original documents and encrypted messages he examined from the George C. Marshall Library and discussed Mrs. Friedman’s codebreaking process.

10/02/2026

Dr. Millichap and Dr. Woodard are running the Breaking Codes and Winning Wars study away May Experience program in May 2027! They will be at the Study Away Fair on 10/3 and hosting info sessions on 10/6 and 10/21. Come learn about applying for this opportunity to study World War era cryptology in London!

09/22/2026

Congratulations to Lilia Bellahcen ’27, Tram Le ’28, Long Nguyen ’28, and Anastasiia Savchenko ’27 for taking second place overall out of 160 teams and 700 participants at VTHacks 14, a hackathon held at Virginia Tech this weekend! Each group had 36 hours to build a web application from scratch. The Furman team created Bubu-Dins, a financial literacy learning game designed for students from middle school through college with a number of interesting features and AI integration. Bubu-Dins was also recognized as the most innovative use of Hokie AI. Kudos on a job well done!

09/16/2026

Address

3300 Poinsett Highway
Greenville, SC
29613

Telephone

+18642943626

Website

http://www.furman.edu/math

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