Indian Institute of Technology - Roorkee is among the foremost of institutes of national importance in higher technological education and in basic and applied research. Since its establishment, the Institute has played a vital role in providing the technical manpower and know-how to the country and in pursuit of research. The Institute ranks amongst the best technological institutions in the world and has contributed to all sectors of technological development. It has also been considered a trend-setter in the area of education and research in the field of science, technology, and engineering

The Department of Mathematics attained its present status of an independent department in 1960. Growing steadily, today the department not only teaches various topics in mathematics to undergraduate and postgraduate students of different engineering and science departments, but also runs its own M.Sc. Courses in Industrial Mathematics and Applied Mathematics.Besides the central Computing facilities of the Institute, the department has its own state of the art Computational Lab and a Mathematical Modelling Lab. The Department also offers facilities for research work leading to Ph.D. degree in different branches of Pure and Applied Mathematics. The department has so far produced over 150 Ph.D's including some foreign students. Department has collaborations with different national and international organizations and has expertise in various fields of mathematics and offers consultancies in mathematical modeling and solution of various industrial and real life problems.The faculty also joins different industrial research and consultancy teams to mutually solve problems of higher mathematical contents. The Department of Mathematics also has expertise in various fields of Computer Science and Technology and several subjects of this field have been and are being taught by the teachers of the department , specifically in programming languages and techniques, fuzzy networks , simulation,modeling and computer graphics. To keep abreast of the latest developments,the department keeps on periodically updating and revising its teaching and research schemes and introduce new courses The Department of Mathematics attained its present status of an independent department in 1960. Growing steadily, today the department not only teaches various topics in mathematics to undergraduate and postgraduate students of different engineering and science departments, but also runs its own M.Sc. Courses in Industrial Mathematics and Applied Mathematics.

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