History of Our Department
Mathematical Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
History of our Graduate Program
The Mathematics Department had the first Master's degree program and
then later the first Ph.D. program at UWM. You can read
"an account of the behind-the-scenes acts which aided in the development
of [UWM's] present graduate school" written in 1990 by
Professor Morris Marden, who is generally considered to be the founder
of our graduate program and of our department as a research department.
He sent this document along with other documents to be deposited in the
UWM Graduate School files in 1990.
One of our alumni was president of Peru! Alberto Fujimori was
granted a Master's degree in Mathematics from UWM in 1972.