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Why Study MATH?
Mathematics provides a powerful set of tools to describe, understand, and changes the world around us. These tools include logical reasoning, abstract thinking, mathematical modeling, and computational analysis. Mathematic is relevant in everyday life, opening opportunities for various forms of employment and research in data science, biotechnology, digital technology, life and health sciences, economics and many more fields. Mathematics is a crucial ingredient necessary to describe, model, and solve problems in all of these areas. Increasingly, employers are looking for graduates with solid critical reasoning and quantitative problems-solving abilities - just the skills that a mathematical degree with provide you with.
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At SFU Department of Mathematics, we offer the following programs.
Mathematical and Applied Mathematics Minor program
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Mathematicians works on may field not only in academia. A degree in Math opens up pathways to a variety of careers.
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