We believe that students learn best when they have the opportunity to ask questions and get acquainted with their professors, and with their fellow students. We are proud to have full-time faculty members who enjoy teaching and mentoring at all levels of study.

The UB Department of Mathematic’s animating mission continues to be the production and dissemination of significant mathematics research having a recognized impact on the development of both fundamental and applied mathematics.

The University at Buffalo Department of Mathematics aims to provide a safe, inclusion environment in which our students, faculty and staff thrive in various collaborative endeavors. We cultivate diversity, equity, and inclusion as a way to advance the production and dissemination of significant mathematics research that impacts the development of both fundamental and applied mathematics. We seek to be proactive in recruitment and retention of students, faculty and staff in order to ensure that, as an academic community, everyone is comfortable participating, contributing, and advancing our mission. We understand that maintaining a positive work and study environment allows people to achieve their full potential in ways that build on our mutual accomplishments.

You are part of a proud national and international community of UB Mathematics Alumni. You will always be a part of UB Mathematics, and we want to keep you connected.

This page provides an overview of the remarkable work of Scott W. Williams, PhD, Emeritus Professor, UB Mathematics.  Dr. Williams joined our faculty in 1971, as Assistant Professor of Mathematics. In 1975, Dr. Williams was the first topologist to apply the concept of scales (now known as b=d) to give a partial solution of the famous Box Product problem, which is still unsettled today. Among many accomplishments, Dr. Williams is a founder of Black and Third World Mathematicians which, in 1971, became the National Association of Mathematicians. In 1982, he won the New York Chancellor Award for Excellence in Teaching, and was promoted to Full Professor a few years later.

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Department of Mathematics
244 Mathematics Building
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260-2900
Phone: (716) 645-6284
Fax: (716) 645-5039