About the Society of Mathematics at Boston University

The aim of the Society of Mathematics is perhaps best evoked by the following passage from Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own:

And thus by degrees was lit, half-way down the spine, which is the seat of the soul, not that hard little light which we call brilliance, as it pops in and out upon our lips, but the more profound, subtle, and subterranian glow which is the rich yellow flame of rational intercourse.

The quote describes the intellectual and material environment of a dinner at the fictional college, 'Oxbridge." The dinner, which she so venerates for being exemplary of 'rational intercourse,' is flawed in that it is open only to a select few. We believe that academic discussion should be an experience available to everyone, and we seek to provide that experience for all undergraduates.