应用数学理学学士

数学是对模式，结构和变化的研究。尽管它是最古老的学科之一，但每天都在创造新的数学。从互联网安全和绿色能源技术到华尔街投资策略，无所不包。Western的数学系的课程强调分析性思维和解决问题的能力，这些技巧不仅可以在数学上，而且可以在许多其他职业（包括法律，商业和一系列技术领域）中为您服务。数学班的学生受益于小班授课，可以与教师进行高水平的互动。
Classes in Western's Department of Mathematics emphasize analytical thinking and problem-solving skills that will serve you well not just in mathematics, but in many other careers, including law, business, and a range of technical fields. Compared to the BA and BS Mathematics majors, this major requires that the student take a carefully selected sequence of courses focusing on a particular area of application of mathematics.<br><br>Mathematics reveals hidden patterns that help us understand the world around us. Now much more than arithmetic and geometry, Mathematics today is a diverse discipline that deals with data, measurements, and observations from science, with inference, deduction, and proof, and with mathematical models of natural phenomena, of human behavior, and of social systems. The special role of Mathematics in education is a consequence of its universal applicability. The results of Mathematics-theorems and theories-are both significant and useful, the best results are also elegant and deep. Through its theorems, Mathematics offers science both a foundation of truth and a standard of certainty.<br><br>In addition to theorems and theories, Mathematics offers distinctive modes of thought which are both versatile and powerful, including modeling, abstraction, optimization, logical analysis, inference from data, and use of symbols. Experience with mathematical modes of thought builds mathematical power-a capacity of mind of increasing value in this technological age that enables one to read critically, to identify fallacies, to detect bias, to assess risk, and to suggest alternatives. Mathematics empowers us to understand better the information-laden world in which we live.'' From: Everybody Counts: A Report to the Nation on the Future of Mathematics Education (c) 1989 National Academy of Sciences.