The department was established in 1956 when Prof. Dr Suleman Karawala was appointed as its first chairman and subsequently Prof. Dr S M Yahya, Prof. A R Hanafi, Prof. Dr S Nazim Hussain Zaidi, Prof. Dr M A Rauf Qureshi, Prof. Dr Ansaruddin Syed, Prof. Dr Jawaid Qamar, Prof. Islamuddin and Prof. Dr. Nasir Khan remained as the chairmen of the department. Presently Prof. Dr. Rana Khalid Naeem is holding the chairmanship of the department.

Initially Pure and Applied Mathematics were introduced for graduate and post graduate classes. This practice continues for about three
decades since the inception of the department. Thereafter from 2000 onwards changes start taking place keeping in view the requirement and the feed back received from different corners. To keep pace with the changing scenario and coop up with the mentioned requirement, following courses are also included as per the time written against them:  

• Masters in Industrial & Business Mathematics (MIBM) of two years duration, started from 1996. (It is encouraging to note that about 12 MCS qualified students have register themselves with MIBM for the session 2003)
• Diploma in Mathematics of one-year duration, started from 2001.
• Environmental Diploma program in JAVA of one year duration, started from 2001
• Environmental Diploma program in ORACLE of one year duration, started from 2001
• Environmental Diploma program in ORACLE Finance of one year duration, started from 2001
• Environmental Diploma program in Information Technology (I.T.) of one year duration, started from 2001
• Certificate course in Mathematics of one-year duration, started from 2001.
• Bachelor in Computational Mathematics & I.T. of 4 years duration will start from next session.
• Bachelor in Financial Mathematics of 4 years duration will start from next session.
• Moreover, Research lab of Fluid Dynamics/Operation Research has also started working from 2002, while the research lab of Image Processing is under process and will start during 2004.

The quality of education at any institution depends upon its faculty. Acquisition of dedicated and qualified faculty members has been the top priority at the department since its inception. Although the faculty of the department at time was rich and highly qualified but due to obvious reasons they couldn't contribute what all was required. Only 29 students were awarded degrees of M.Phil/Ph.D up to 1998. From 1999 onwards despite of much lesser highly qualified faculty the amount of research work which leads to M.Phil./Ph.D.

 

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