In the initial stage of the establishment of the department, it was named as Department of Mathematics and it came into existence in October, 1958. It had started with a modest and    impressive beginning and has grown into a grand Department of Mathematics and Statistics. A renowned mathematician Padmashree Prof. R.S. Mishra  was the first   Professor of Mathematics who joined the  Department    whose academic endeavours led to all-round development of the department.

Prof. R.P. Agarwal,another eminent mathematician, succeeded Prof. Mishra in September, 1963. Underthe able guidance of Prof. R.S. Mishra and Prof. R.P. Agrawal, the Departmentof   Mathematics developed into an important‘Centre of Research’ in the fields  of Theory of   Relativity, Differential Geometry, Fluid Dynamics, Special Functions & Summability Theory.

Statistics as a full-fledged and separate subject was introduced in the academic session1970-71 at the Under-Graduate level and the teaching of Statistics at the Post-Graduate level was started in the session  1982-83. As a consequence, the department was rechristened as the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in 1970.

At the initiative ofProf. B.G. Verma, an academic body (society) named as National Academy of Mathematics, India was founded in the year 1983to promote mathematical training and  research. A research journal named ‘Journal of the National Academy of Mathematics, India was started to publish  research papers on Mathematics and Statistics.

At present, there are 13 faculty members and 3Non-Teaching Staff  working in thedepartment.

Listof Faculty Members:

Listof Non-Teaching Staff

Facilities:

Library:TheDepartment has a Library for PG and Research students containing thousands of booksand journals. The library is partially funded by NBHM also.

ComputerLab: The department has well-equipped three Computer Labswith 30 PCs with internet facilities.  Thedepartment has perpetual version of MATLAB and MATHEMATICA Software.

ThrustAreas of Research:

Talent contests and lectures as well asnational and international conferences and workshops are organized from time totime in the Department. The department has energetic and dedicated facultymembers who are actively involved in research areas: Theory of Relativity, Cosmology,Differential Geometry, Differentiable Manifolds, Mathematical Analysis, Number Theory, Fuzzy Sets, FuzzyOptimization, Operations Research, Differential Equations, Fluid Dynamics,Wavelet Analysis, Numerical Methods, Mathematical Modelling, Biomathematics,Information Theory, Reliability Theory, Stochastic Modelling, StatisticalInference, Bayesian Inference, Demography, Machine Learning, Data Analysis,etc. Presently about 60 research scholars are pursuing their research workunder the able guidance of the faculty members. The department has to itscredit produced so far about 300 Ph.D. scholars and 3 Post-Doctoral Fellows.Also, about 2000 research papers and 200 books have been published by thefaculty members of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

ResearchProjects:

As a mile stone, the department wasawarded the status of Center ofExcellence by the U.P. Government in 2019 for its excellent research andacademic activities.

The faculty members have also completeda numbers of major research projects funded by UGC, CSIR, DST, CST-UP, NBHM andother Government funding agencies. At Present, two Major research projects  funded by CST-UP and UP Government arerunning in the department.

List of Head of Department                              Time-line

1.     Prof. R.S. Mishra                                 1958      -      1963

2.     Prof. R.P. Agarwal                              1963      -      1966

3.     Prof. K.B. Lal                                      1966      -      1979  

4.     Prof. B.G. Verma                                1979      -      1985

5.     Prof. U.P. Singh                                  1985      -      1991

6.     Prof. H.D. Pandey                               1991      -      2001

7.     Prof. C.M. Prasad                                2001      -      2002   

8.     Prof. V.P. Ojha                                    2002      -      2003

9.     Prof. A.A. Ansari                                 2003      -      2007

10. Prof. H. S. Shukla                          21.06.2007 - 19.12.2007

11. Prof. A. A. Ansari                          20.12.2007 - 02.07.2008

12. Prof. H. S. Shukla                          03.07.2008 - 02.07.2011

13. Prof. R. S. Srivastava                     03.07.2011 - 31.12.2013

14. Prof. R.C. Srivastava                      01.01.2014 - 19.03.2015

15. Prof. J.P. Vishwakarma                  20.03.2015 - 04.01.2017

16. Prof. S.K. Srivastava                      05.01.2017 - 04.01.2020

17. Prof. V. S. Verma                           05.01.2020 - 20.12.2021

18. Prof. Vijay Kumar                          20.12.2021 -    tilldate

Mission of the Department

The mission of theDepartment of Mathematics & Statistics is to contribute to the overallobjectives of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University and its affiliatedcolleges through excellence in research and teaching in Mathematical Sciencesand through informal discussions and other social services to the teachingcommunity, professionals, and society at large.

Vision of the Department

The vision of theDepartment of Mathematics & Statistics is to promote and support a comprehensive,innovative, and dynamic learning environment. The main vision of the Departmentis to become world class facility centre in the area of Mathematical Sciencesnationally and internationally through Post-Graduate Courses, ResearchExpertise, Publications, and Resources in Mathematical Sciences and tocater  the requirements of users ofMathematical Sciences in various fields. Besides teaching, one of theremarkable activities of the Department has been the vigorous research studiesdone by the faculty members and the research scholars in both Pure and Applied Mathematicsas well as Statistics.

DepartmentalActivities:

·        Seminars are conducted for PG and PhDstudents of both the subjects Mathematics and Statistics on alternate Saturdaysto enhance their presentation skill/knowledge in mathematical sciences.

·        Weekly classes on Mathematical Sciencesare conducted to encourage the UG and PG students for various competitiveexamination such as IIT-JAM, CSIR and GATEetc.

·         Parent-Teacher meetings are organized fromtime to time in the department.

·         National/International Conferences are organised every year during the month of October- Novemberto share the knowledge on latest research updates amongst Mathematics communityand to establish research collaboration with other institute/university.

·         Every year on 22^nd December,the Department celebrates National Mathematics Day. On this occasion, manyactivities such as mathematics-quiz, poster-presentation, and special lecturesare organized.

·         The department provides following four scholarships/prizefor PG students in every academic session:

(i)                Padamshree Professor R. S. MishraMemorial scholarship

(ii)              Professor K.B. Lal Memorial scholarship

(iii)            Professor Ram Nivas Memorial Scholarship

(iv)            Pandit Harihar Prasad Dubey Memorialscholarship

Teaching-Learning Process

Teaching-Learning Process is a combined processwhere a teacher assesses learning needs, establishes specific learningobjectives, develops teaching and learning strategies, implements plan of workand evaluates the outcomes of the instruction.

The comprehensive course outline enables thestudents to enhance mathematical & statistical skills, data analysis, computationalskills, and machine learning skills. The teaching-learning process develops theability to think critically, logically and analytically thereby preparing thestudents to enhanced career opportunities in Research& Development (R &D), Information technology (IT), Commerce Industries (CI), etc. So, for all thecourses, we have

·        Learning outcomes and objectives of eachcourse defined clearly.

·        Question/Test papers as well as anycomponents related to grading set according to the learning outcomes defined inthe course.

·        Course structure, preparation and deliveryplans created by the concerned faculty members.

Community Services and Outreach

Outreachfor Department of Mathematics and Statistics is an activity that enhances theteaching and learning of Mathematics and Statistics outside the department.  The department also performs the followingoutreach activities to explore the discourses of Mathematics and Statistics inthe following sophisticated ways:

·        Organizing mathematics training programsfor the school and college teachers

·        Organizing training programmes/lectureseries on scientific computing and data analysis for the researchers in fieldof Economics, Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Engineering and Technology aswell in Commerce, Trades and Industries etc.