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Mathematics & Physics
|  Mathematics is an essential component of the traditional liberal arts. From their inception in Greek thought, the liberal arts included arithmetic and geometry. In the medieval grouping of the seven liberal arts into trivium and quadrivium, the latter four were considered intrinsically mathematical in nature. The Greeks and medieval schoolmen considered mathematics as a propadeutic for higher studies. The abstraction, formality, and rigor of mathematical reasoning instill in the student habits of logic, precision, clarity, and patience. The study of mathematical objects disposes the student to the existence of immaterial forms. | |  | recent graduate James Menard - Class of 2007 & Analyst with Accenture:
"After transferring to Ave Maria University from a Top 5 Engineering Program, I was uncertain about my future. I knew Ave Maria would help me in my faith life, but what could they offer to make me more successful in my career? I already possessed the problem solving skills necessary for success in the business world, but I soon learned this would not be enough. Ave Maria helped me gain the necessary oral and written communication skills to put me a step ahead of my peers and to land a job with the world's largest consulting company." |
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|  | | Mathematics 251: Vector Calculus
Math 251 is a course about vectors and about calculus, but it also about a story. The story begins and ends with revolutions in our understanding of the physical world in which we live. It carries us from the birth of the mechanized view of the world in Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica, in which mathematics becomes the ultimate tool for modeling physical reality, to the dawn of a radically new and often counterintuitive age in Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, in which it is the mathematical model that suggests new aspects of that reality. This is also a chance to have some fun with the mathematics. Here is the promised reward of being able to do something interesting and useful with the Calculus that you have mastered in the past year. We shall compute orbits and rocket trajectories, see how to model flows and force fields, derive the laws of electricity and magnetism, and show how observations of mathematical symmetry lead to the conclusion that matter and energy are interchangeable. |
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