A Brief History of Undergraduate Mathematics between 1960 to Present in the United States

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10.2991/mmetss-17.2017.3How to use a DOI?

Keywords

History, United States, Undergraduate Mathematics

Abstract

Mathematics, as an undergraduate major, has been through lots of reforms and evolution to become the major as people see today. This paper will discuss about the development of mathematics as an undergraduate major from 1960 to present by analyzing the reasons for the change of the enrollment rate and the progress that the mathematical associations made. Looking through the whole history of undergraduate mathematics program, it was first established in the early 1700s as a training for brain, developed quickly from 1960s to 1970s because of the stimulation of the space race, experienced the depression from 1970s to 1980s due to the poor teaching quality and finally progressed and kept the stable development until present.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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