Graduating with honors is the highest academic distinction offered to undergraduate students at St. Bonaventure University. For complete and current information about obtaining a degree with honors, consult the University Honors Program website.
Relationship to the Senior Comprehesive Requirement
An Honors Project in mathematics with a grade of C or better will fulfill the Senior Comprehensive Requirement.
Mathematics Students and their Honors Projects
The following table lists the last several students who earned a degree in mathematics with honors. All faculty advisers were in the Department of Mathematics, except as indicated. Call numbers are included for those projects housed in the Friedsam Memorial Library. Copies of Chloe Koerner Priester's project, Lindsey Besch's project, and P.J. Darcy's project may be found in the display case in the Mathematics Suite.
Year
|
Student
|
Project
|
Faculty Adviser(s)
|
| 2013 |
Aleda Leis |
“From Pythagoras to Xenakis: Mathematical
Influence in Musical Composition”
|
Laura Peterson (Music) |
| 2012 |
Chloe Koerner Priester |
“Experiencing Hyperbolic Geometry: Proof of
an Isomorphism Between Two Groups in the
Hyperbolic Plane”
|
Dr. Maureen Cox |
| 2005 |
Lindsey Besch |
“A Proof that the Standard Normal Function
Cannot Be Integrated in Finite Terms”
Call no.: QA273.6 .B47 2005
|
Dr. Doug Cashing |
| 2004 |
Adam Wherle |
“Hedge Ratios for Exotic Options” |
Dr. Jeff Peterson (Finance) |
| 1997 |
David T. Tascione |
“Norms Generated by the Minkowski
Functional”
Call no.: QA685 .T27
|
Dr. Charles Diminnie
& Dr. Francis Leary |
| 1996 |
P.J. Darcy |
“Quantitative Study of Dynamic Systems”
Call no.: QA371 .D27
|
Dr. Harry Sedinger |
| 1996 |
Kelly Thiel |
“Degrees of Certain Radical Extensions of the
Rational Field”
Call no.: QA162 .T55
|
Dr. Francis Leary |
| 1995 |
Heather Lecceardone |
“Fixed Points and Iteration Sequences”
Call no.: QA329.9 .L43
|
Dr. Charles Diminnie |
| 1989 |
John P. Holcomb, Jr. |
“An Introduction To Summability Theory”
Call no.: QA292 .H65
|
Dr. Francis Leary |
| 1988 |
Heather Danahy |
“Module Theory” |
Dr. Francis Leary |