Astor Department of Mathematics
So called after receiving a long series of contributions and endowments from Benjamin and Athena Astor.
Dr.Hiram Upham chairs the department, which also supports three associate professors, four graduate assistants, and a secretary, in a sumptuous style envied by every other faculty member on campus. The department is not large enough to be a school but, since its funding is independent, it has equivalent freedom and prestige.
The department is pleased to provide mathematical liaison with other departments, but its creative impulses curve toward topology and extradimensional explorations. Upham teaches advanced mathematics and numbers among his students the brilliant Walter Gilman.
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