The Mathematics Department of St. Xavier’s College is proud to be the inheritors of a glorious heritage. The first name that comes to our mind is that of Rev.Fr.F.Goreux who was associated with the Department from 1940 to 1987.Fr.Goreux nurtured this Department from its infancy and adolescence to youthful independence. He has been a constant source of inspiration as well as the driving force behind this Department for nearly five decades. Generations of students and teachers have enjoyed the warmth of his loving care and benefited from the erudition of this apostle of Mathematics. Eminent mathematicians like Late Dr. S.Nag (Bhatnagar Awardee), Prof. A. Roy (I.S.I.), Dr. A. Bagchi (Pennsylvania Univ.), Dr. N. Basu (Cornell Univ.) are among many students of  whom we are proud of.

Special Care:

Care is taken to collect personal data by talking to each student individually so that individual attention can be paid depending on the requirement (economically/academically). Special attention is paid to weak students from under-privileged background.

Student-Teacher Relationship:

The Department boasts of a healthy student teacher relationship, with teachers being always accessible to students, and students reciprocating the attention by spontaneous love and respect. This spirit is celebrated in the Annual Picnic of the Department which is attended by most of the students and by the staff with their family.

Student Counseling:

A continuous counseling of students on academic and career related matters is done on the basis of data collected from

• students ; on first entry in the Department , each student is given a booklet “Guide for Study in First Year Mathematics Honours” containing general guidelines as to the course they have to go through  in the particular reference to the special approach one has to make during study of Mathematics at undergraduate level. Also it contains an overview of the activities of the Department including the schedule of Tests they have to face during the Course.

• class response, performance in tests.

• group discussions and student seminar.

Senior teachers are available for counseling on personal problems if the need arises.

Innovative Methods of Teaching :   

• Use of Audio-Visual aids

• Seminar by the students.

• Interactive Lecture sessions with eminent scholars.

Good Record of Performance of our students :

• Uniformly good results in University Examinations.

• A number of our students have been admitted to integrated Ph.D., M.Sc., M.C.A. programmes of premiere institutes like TIFR, Inst.Mat.Science,CMI, I.I.T. Kanpur, I.I.T. Kharagpur, I.S.I., I.I.Sc. and Pune University etc.

• Some of our students were selected for N.B.H.M. Scholarship for higher studies(Annexure6)

• Some students were selected to attend a one month summer course in Mathematics sponsored by N.B.H.M..

• Students were selected for a two months research fellowship by the I.N.S.A.

Computer Facility:

The Department has its own computer with uninterrupted Internet facility.

Departmental Question Bank:

Mathematics Department has a Question Bank that helps the Departmental students to prepare better for the University Examinations and also familiarize them with different types of problems of foreign universities obtained from the Internet.

Modularization of General Syllabus :

The Department has modularized the existing B.Sc. General Course syllabus. This helps to maintain a uniform standard of teaching in the different sections of the general mathematics class .

The Mathematics Department has a good, sympathetic and supportive faculty, who are accessible to the students anytime during the college working hours. Outside college working hours students can contact teachers on phone and e-mail. The department works in tandem, with mutual respect and fellow – feeling, to generate an atmosphere conducive to higher learning.

In spite of their heavy schedule of teaching and other duties in the college under autonomous system most of the faculty members are engaged in research work, as evidenced by good publications of books and articles, attendance at conferences and seminars in India/abroad.

Special care is taken to collect personal data by talking to each student individually so that individual attention can be paid depending on the requirement (economically/academically). Special attention is offered to weak students from under-privileged background.

Seminars & Conference

The department organizes Seminar/Workshop/Conference on various branches of mathematics. Few seminars are given by our faculty members. In recent past Prof. A. Dey and Prof. D. J. Bhattachariya can be named in this regard.

Lectures by Eminent Scholars

Some lectures have been arranged in A.V room where eminent scholars have given lectures on advanced topics of Mathematics. Prof. Sandip Banerjee of IIT Roorkey gave lecture on Biomathematics where special emphasis was on Use of Mathematics in Cancer Research. Prof. Arup Mukherjee of Montclair University USA visited the college and gave various ideas to update the mathematics curriculum. A team from Ecole Polytechnique, an institution of long heritage and great repute in France, visited the department and has given a lecture on ‘Riemann Zeta Function and its application’ & expressed their in collaborative program with us.

Organisation of Conference

Every year students and teachers organize ‘ANALYTICA Pie Let’s be irrational’, a 3-days long conference on various field of Mathematics. Eminent Mathematician from different part of the country come and share their knowledge in challenging and emerging areas of mathematics research from Chaos to Genentech algorithm, from Number theory to Quantum computation. For encouraging student a session is devoted for student paper presentation.

COURSE STRUCTURE

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