Graduate Math To Be Combined

The Faculties of Arts and Sciences and Business Administration will cooperate next year in offering mathematics courses to selected graduate students in business, economics, statistics and engineering.

The changes resulted from a Faculty committee report issued yesterday. The report stated that duplication of courses in the mathematics of decision and control by different departments is not only unnecessary, but, detrimental because it ties up Faculty members who might otherwise develop more specialized courses in their particular fields.

This branch of mathematics is used to analyze problems in which large numbers of variables interact. It provides social scientists, business administrators, and natural scientists with a method for making decisions when numerous factors must be weighed against each other.

The proposed courses will introduce the graduate student to basic mathematical concepts and techniques which he will then apply to his specific field.