In the 1970s, in order to develop education and revitalize the economy in southern Henan, especially to train middle school teachers and build talents for Xinyang area, the superior decided to set up specialized classes on the basis of Xinyang Normal School. Under this background, Xinyang Branch of Kaifeng Teachers College was formally established in Xinyang Teachers College on July 1975, which is the predecessor of Xinyang Teachers College. At that time, there were five majors: Chinese, mathematics, politics and religion, physics and chemistry, among which the mathematics major was the later mathematics department, which is today's College of Mathematics and Information Science (hereinafter referred to as the College of Mathematics). In the early days of the establishment of Xinyang Branch of Kaifeng Normal University, the conditions for running a school were very simple, not only there was no independent school venue, but also the necessary teachers were lacking. 1975 In the first half of the year, some teachers from Xinyang Normal School, Huangchuan Normal School and Gushi No.1 Middle School formed a preparatory group for mathematics major. With the sense of urgency and lofty mission of the times, they started from simplicity and laid a solid foundation. 1975 10, 40 students recommended by counties in Xinyang area (now Xinyang city) entered the mathematics major, and they became the first batch of junior college students in the history of the Institute of Mathematics. 1September, 976, the math group of Xinyang Normal School was merged into the math major.

1July, 978, the school was moved from Xinyang Normal School at that time to Xinyang Senior High School (now the location of Xinyang Normal College). In 65438+February of the same year, the Ministry of Education approved the establishment of Xinyang Normal University, and the mathematics major was changed to the mathematics department to recruit the first undergraduate students. Wang Wei was appointed secretary of the Party branch of the Department of Mathematics, and Yi was appointed secretary of the Party branch. The Department of Mathematics consists of five teaching and research sections, namely, mathematical analysis, advanced algebra, equations and advanced mathematics, applied mathematics and geometry, and an administrative office.

1981may, the general party branch was established in the department of mathematics, and Wang Wei was appointed as the deputy secretary of the general party branch. 1982 10, Li Shunmo is the deputy director of the Department of Mathematics. From 65438 to 0982, after the Cultural Revolution, more than ten undergraduates graduated from Kaifeng Normal University, Xinxiang Normal University, Wuhan University and other universities to teach in the Department of Mathematics. At this point, the lineup of mathematics teachers is relatively strong.

1983 10, Li Shunmo was appointed deputy secretary of the General Party Branch of the Department of Mathematics, presided over the party affairs, Liang Benzhong and Yuan were appointed deputy directors, and Liang Benzhong presided over the administrative work. 1985, Huang Pinru was appointed Secretary of the General Party Branch of the Department of Mathematics.

After ten years of construction, a mathematics department has begun to take shape, and all teachers have done a good job in teaching, which has initially shown good teaching results. For example, Wang Xiyou, a 79-grade student, obtained a master's degree from the Department of Mathematics of Nanjing University with excellent results, becoming the first undergraduate graduate in the history of Xinyang Normal University; Wang Xiyou, a 80-grade student, obtained a master's degree from the Department of Mathematics of Southwest Normal University; and Jin and Xu Jianguo, a 8 1 grade student, obtained master's degrees from Beijing Normal University and Jiaotong University respectively. In addition, the comprehensive level and teaching ability of graduates assigned to teaching posts in secondary education are gradually recognized by the society. From 65438 to 0986, Comrade Liang Benzhong was the head of the Department of Mathematics, and Lu Shitang and Yuan successively served as the secretary of the Party branch. This stage can be said to be a crucial period for the development of the Department of Mathematics. Various management rules and regulations have been gradually established and improved, and great progress has been made in the construction of teaching staff, specialty construction and school-running vitality.

Construction of teaching staff: At that time, department leaders and teachers had a strong sense of crisis and development consciousness, and clearly realized the urgent need for the department of mathematics to survive, develop and stand out in the fierce competition, catch up with the department of mathematics in key universities and build an elite teaching staff. Department leaders emphasize the importance of teaching staff construction on as many occasions as possible, encourage young teachers to improve their professional and academic level, and enhance their teaching and scientific research ability. And took the lead in formulating a set of teaching staff construction plan. By sending outstanding young teachers to key universities and scientific research institutions at home and abroad to study for master's degrees and visiting scholars, the academic level and teaching and scientific research level of mathematics teachers have been effectively improved. Since 1987, young teachers in the Department of Mathematics have gone out to study for degrees (mainly oriented) or become visiting scholars every year, and the largest number of them was 1988, when eight people were sent to study for master's degrees. During the eight years from 1987 to 1994, the Department of Mathematics * * * sent 23 people to study for master's degree, 1 people to study for doctor's degree, and 10 people sent visiting scholars. The academic structure and professional title structure of teachers have undergone fundamental changes. A number of outstanding teachers were promoted to professors and associate professors, and the number of teachers also increased significantly, from more than 20 at the beginning to more than 60 at the peak. At present, the Department of Mathematics has made outstanding achievements in the construction of teaching staff, and realized the plan of training teachers jointly with the Institute of System Science of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1988, and was awarded "Advanced Teacher Training Unit in Henan Province" by the Henan Provincial Department of Education in 1995.

Specialty construction: At present, the Department of Mathematics has also made gratifying achievements in specialty construction. 1986 applied for and was approved as a computer education major, and enrolled students in computer education junior college. 1992 the school established the computer department based on this major, and 10 teachers transferred from the mathematics department to the computer department. 1988, 1989 held the "advanced training course for economic management cadres", with a two-year academic system. 1992, offering the major of economic information management. The school was established as the Department of Economics 1993, and the Department of Economic Management and related teachers were also transferred to the Department of Economics. 1994 the department of mathematics applied for and was approved to major in accounting and computer technology, and enrolled junior college students that year. On this basis, he applied for and was approved to major in accounting in 1996, and enrolled undergraduates that year. 200 1 the accounting major was separated from the department of mathematics and merged into the school of economics and management. Over the past ten years, after three professional adjustments (that is, separation), it has brought some difficulties to the development of the mathematics department itself, but it has made positive contributions to the expansion of the professional scale of the whole hospital.

Adult education: At present, the adult education of the Department of Mathematics has also made great progress. 1987 began to recruit correspondence majors in mathematics education, 199 1 started to recruit correspondence undergraduate courses, 1992 began to recruit practical talents and set up majors such as computer, economic management and computer accounting. Jointly run schools with Zhumadian Personnel Bureau, Xinyang Personnel Bureau, Xinyang Statistics Bureau and Xiping County Party School. Starting from 1995, we jointly run schools with Jinan Army College to train local students. Since 1997, 200 local secondary school students and 70 junior college students have been jointly enrolled. At one time, there were more than 1000 undergraduates and correspondence students.

Curriculum construction: the leaders and teachers of the Department of Mathematics attach great importance to strengthening curriculum construction, and have made teaching plans and curriculum construction plans for many times, which has achieved good results. 1993 The course of Mathematical Analysis in our department was rated as a provincial-level excellent course, and it was the only provincial-level excellent course that was first approved.

In the construction of rules and regulations, the Department of Mathematics attaches great importance to the standardization, scientification and institutionalization of various management work, and has revised and improved various rules and regulations such as administrative management, student management, teacher management, teaching management, scientific research management and post responsibilities. For example, the detailed teaching rules of the Department of Mathematics, the relevant regulations for teachers to apply for further study and graduate students, the work regulations of the teaching and research section of the Department of Mathematics, the teaching inspection system of the Department of Mathematics, the opinions of the Department of Mathematics on setting up a second major for undergraduates, the specific measures to strengthen teaching management and improve teaching quality, the teaching inspection system of the Department of Mathematics, the attendance system of the Department of Mathematics, and the professional ethics of the teachers of the Department of Mathematics. At this stage, the leadership of the Department of Mathematics has undergone some adjustments. Yu and Li Xuezhi successively served as the head of the Department of Mathematics and the dean of the School of Mathematics, and Comrade Luo Dong served as the secretary of the General Party Branch. Through the accumulation of the above two stages, we have made brilliant achievements in teaching staff, master's programs, key disciplines and curriculum construction. Its main achievements and characteristics can be reflected in the following aspects.

1998 or so, the older generation of entrepreneurs in the department of mathematics retired one after another. With the development of the situation, the competition among universities is becoming more and more fierce. The leaders of the Department of Mathematics sized up the situation and realized that if the Department of Mathematics wants to by going up one flight of stairs, maintain the prosperity of scientific research and seek greater development, it must improve the level of personnel training, shift the focus from training masters to training doctors, and of course, never give up the training of masters. Since 1998, the Department of Mathematics has sent 14 people to pursue doctoral degrees, and three people have been invited to visit, give lectures or do postdoctoral research in Italy, Israel, Japan and other countries four times. A group of new young scholars have been promoted to professors, and the structure of professional titles, academic qualifications and age of teachers has been further improved.

With the foundation of the second-phase talent training, the Department of Mathematics has gradually formed two academic groups, namely, basic mathematics and applied mathematics, and the number and level of scientific research achievements have been continuously improved. 1998, with the approval of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, the Department of Mathematics was awarded a master's degree in basic mathematics, which was the first master's degree program approved by the college, and the first master's degree program was enrolled in 1999. The master's degree in basic mathematics has five directions: nonlinear ordinary differential equations and their applications, functional analysis and applications, partial differential equations, algebra and mathematics in computer science. This major has trained more than 35 graduate students in five sessions. In 2003, the department was granted a master's degree in applied mathematics, and in September 2004, the first batch of postgraduate students in applied mathematics entered the school. Subject * * * has four research directions: biological mathematics, applied functional analysis, economic mathematics and mathematical physics.

Construction of key disciplines The Department of Mathematics attaches great importance to discipline construction, believing that a discipline is the foundation of a department and represents the professional direction of teaching, scientific research and personnel training. The level of discipline directly affects and determines the level, quality, level and popularity of this department. Under the correct leadership and cordial care of the Party Committee, the school administration and the graduate school, the key disciplines of the Institute of Mathematics have clear ideas, clear objectives, effective measures and remarkable results, forming three disciplines with obvious characteristics and strong comprehensive strength: basic mathematics, applied mathematics and system theory. "Basic Mathematics" was identified as a key construction discipline at the college level by 1997 and 200 1 for two consecutive years, and was awarded a master's degree by 1998, and was identified as a key construction discipline at the provincial level in 2004. In 2005, the subject was approved as a provincial distinguished professor post. Applied mathematics was identified as a key construction discipline at the college level in 20001year, and was awarded a master's degree authorization point in 2004, making Mathematics College the only department with two master's degree authorization points at Xinyang Normal University at that time. "System Theory" was identified as the third batch of key construction disciplines in Xinyang Normal University in 2004.

The overall scientific research level of teachers with scientific research achievements is one of the characteristics of the Institute of Mathematics. It has formed its own characteristics in applied functional analysis, biological mathematics, semigroup algebra theory, quantum group theory, combinatorial mathematics and other research directions. , and has a certain influence on academic colleagues at home and abroad, and has achieved fruitful scientific research results. From 1998 to 2007, the School of Mathematics published more than 400 academic papers, including more than 100 papers in core journals at home and abroad, and more than 70 papers in influential academic journals abroad, among which more than 40 papers were included in SCI, ranking first in science and engineering. Published 5 academic monographs, 8 textbooks and teaching reference books. He has successively presided over more than 40 scientific research projects of the Provincial Science and Technology Department and the Provincial Education Department, 2 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, 7 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation and the National 863 Project, the Henan Outstanding Youth Science Fund Project 1, the Henan Provincial Education Department Innovative Talents Project 1, and more than 40 scientific research projects of the Ministry of Education, the Henan Provincial Science and Technology Department and the Education Department. * * Received nearly 2 million yuan in research funding. Frequent academic exchanges. Every year, we invite many well-known domestic experts to give lectures in our college. Every year, a considerable number of teachers go out to attend various international and domestic academic conferences.

Course construction After 1993, the mathematical analysis course of our college was rated as a provincial-level excellent course, by 2003, the courses of advanced algebra, ordinary differential equations, real variable functions and functional analysis of our college were successively rated as provincial-level excellent courses, accounting for one third of the 12 excellent courses of our college. The course "Analytic Geometry" has been determined as an excellent course at the school level. In 2005, the mathematical analysis course of the college was rated as a provincial-level excellent course. After years of construction, the provincial-level excellent courses of this department have achieved good results in the reform and research of teachers, teaching conditions, teaching content and teaching methods, and the teaching quality of the courses has been obviously improved, and a number of new teaching and research achievements have also been achieved. The national and provincial teaching and research projects were appraised as 1 and 7 respectively, and they won 5 provincial teaching achievement awards and 2 university teaching achievement awards1.

With the rapid development of computer technology and the wide application of multimedia technology, traditional teaching methods and means can no longer meet the requirements of the new situation. We have thoroughly reformed the traditional teaching methods of cramming, emphasizing theory over practice and knowledge over ability training, and implemented teaching methods of combining teaching with discussion, theoretical study with practical study, classroom teaching with extracurricular activities, innovation and entrepreneurship, giving full play to the leading role of teachers and the main role of students. In teaching methods, we should gradually promote the use of multimedia teaching, develop electronic teaching plans and build online courses. Because more than 80% teachers in our department can operate computers skillfully, multimedia courseware has been used in some courses such as History of Mathematics, Mathematical Analysis, Mathematical Model, Advanced Algebra and Probability and Statistics. There are several math laboratories and four multimedia classrooms in the School of Mathematics.