History
The faculty was founded on January 1, 1967, a successor to the mathematics department in the Faculty of Arts. Initially located in the Physics building, it was moved in May 1968 into the newly-constructed Mathematics and Computer (MC) building.
One of the professors at this school at this time, Ralph Stanton, became legendary among students for wearing gaudy ties. This inspired the students to drape a gigantic pink tie over the MC building on the occasion of its opening, which later became an official mascot of the Faculty.
At the time of its founding, the faculty included five departments: Applied Analysis and Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Combinatorics and Optimization, Pure Mathematics, and Statistics. In 1975 the Department of Applied Analysis and Computer Science became simply the Department of Computer Science; in 2002 it became a semiautonomous School, now the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science. The Statistics department also was later renamed to Statistics and Actuarial Science.
The Faculty of Mathematics finished construction of a third building, Mathematics 3 or M3, in 2011. It now houses the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science and a large lecture hall.
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