Mathematics & Computer Science
Courses in mathematics & computer science help students discover and appreciate the power, logic, and beauty of mathematics. At all levels of math, students explore and study functions, iteration and recursion, transformations, proof and reasoning, algebraic properties and notation, statistics, and shape and space.
Resources and Technology
- The Math Team is a co-curricular activity that competes against other schools.
- The Math Club offers peer tutoring and other activities.
- In addition to Coding classes, the App Club is a great way to build technical solutions for everyday problems.
New students must take a placement test before enrolling in a math course.
Students are required to own the Texas Instruments TI-36X calculator.
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Euclid to Einstein Scholars Program
The Euclid to Einstein Scholars Program launched in the summer of 2025 as an opportunity for Hotchkiss students to study the history of math, science, and technology. The inaugural program took place at Cornell University in June through a unique partnership with its world-class math library and Science and Technology Studies Department.
Twelve upper-mid students and three instructors conducted research into math- and science-related topics, and they worked with math and physics faculty and math librarians while at Cornell. Students selected a mathematician or a physicist whose life and work they admired and investigated their ground-breaking contributions and their positioning in the development of mathematics and physics.
As part of the program, during their senior year, students will take an honors course to study the history of mathematics and physics. Using their Cornell research as a starting point, they will complete their final project of the program—a scientific biography of the person they had selected. While at Cornell, students will also take additional math classes that introduce many important topics needed for the history course (Taylor Series expansion, "re-inventing" Complex numbers, the famous Euler's formula, ordinary and partial differential equations, Calculus of variations, etc.).