Mathematics

Mathematics is beautiful and useful. Students of mathematics learn both how to explore abstract mathematical ideas and also how to solve quantitative problems from the natural and social sciences.

The Mathematics department offers:

Majors

Minors

Problem of the Week

Each week’s entries will be scored by an illustrious panel of faculty judges. Each week’s winner(s) will get a stylish and prestigious P.O.W. prize button, and the student(s) with the highest score at the end of each semester will win the Paul Mugabi Problem-solving award.

View the current problem of the week

Joint student-faculty publications

  • Article: The minimum size of signed sumsets, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 22 (2015), #P2.50. by Bela Bajnok and Ryan Matzke

  • Article: Primes and Involutions of Z_n^+, Involve 8 (2015), 653-663. by Karenna Genzlinger and Keir Lockridge, Sophie Germain

  • Article: A State-Dependent Delay Equation with Chaotic Solutions, Electronic Journal of Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations (2019), No. 22, 1-20, by Benjamin B. Kennedy, Yiran Mao, and Erik Wendt

News

Colloquium Series

Every semester the Mathematics Department hosts a series of lectures about various topics.

View past presentations

Draw the Lines Event

April 18, 2019

Gettysburg College hosts Draw The Lines PA, a civic educational and engagement initiative with a legislative mapping contest. Learn how to map and about the contest, which has cash prizes up to $5,000. Lunch provided. Open to members of the Gettysburg College community only.

Mathematics Spotlight

First-Year Seminar students recognized for ingenuity, redistricting PA election map
First-Year Seminar students recognized for ingenuity, redistricting PA election map
Liberals arts environment fosters mathematics innovation
Liberal arts environment fosters mathematics innovation