History of Our Department

Mathematical Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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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.

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