AMS Degree Options

The Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics offers a variety of choices for your degree. In addition to the undergraduate degree of Mathematical Sciences with an emphasis in either Computational and Applied Math or Statistics, we also offer several graduate degree options. Using the table below, take some time to find a degree that's best for you.

Options	Math	Stat
BS
BS+MS
MS
PhD
Minor*

* The Minor Options also include discussions of an Area of Special Interest (ASI).

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Some Summer Diversions!

Albert Einstein loved brain teasers. He was credited with coming up with one of the hardest brain teasers ever (shown below) and claimed that 98% of the world couldn't solve it. Can you?

There are 5 houses. Each house is painted a different color. Each home owner is a different nationality, drinks a different drink, smokes a different brand of cigarette and has a different type of pet.

Here are the clues:

1. The British owner lives in the red house.
2. The Swedish man likes dogs.
3. The Danish man enjoys a spot of tea.
4. When looking at the front of the houses the green house is just left of the white one.
5. The owner of the green house likes coffee.
6. The person that raises birds smokes Pall Malls.
7. The man who smokes Dunhill brand also owns the yellow house.
8. The owner of the center house drinks milk.
9. The man from Norway lives in the last house on the left.
10. The person who smokes Blends is the neighbor to the man who smokes Dunhill.
11. The man who drinks beer also smokes Bluemasters.
12. The German man smokes Prince.
13. The Norwegian is the neighbor to the man who lives in the blue house.
14. The person who smokes Blends lives next to the man who drinks water.

Who is the owner of the pet fish?

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