北京师范大学数学学科起源于1915年创建的北京高等师范学校数理部，1922年成立数学系，1983年成立数学与数学教育研究所。历经百余年的发展，沉淀了优秀的学科传统和学科文化，搭建了完善的人才培养、科学研究、社会服务平台，是国家基础科学人才培养和科学研究的重要基地，引领我国数学教育的改革与发展。
1981年获基础数学、概率论与数理统计博士学位授予权。1986年获应用数学博士学位授予权。1988年，基础数学、概率论与数理统计被评为国家重点学科。1990年建立了北京师范大学第一个博士后流动站。1996年，数学学科成为国家211工程重点建设的学科。1997年成为国家基础科学人才培养基金基地。1998年获数学一级学科博士学位授予权。2001年概率论方向被评为国家自然科学基金创新群体。2004年成立数学科学学院。2005年进入“985工程”科技创新基础建设平台。2007年数学学科被评为一级学科国家重点学科。2008年数学与应用数学专业师范教育方向获第一批高等学校特色专业建设点。2009年数学与复杂系统教育部重点实验室挂牌，分析类课程教学团队被评为国家级优秀教学团队，调和分析与流形的几何方向被评为教育部创新团队。2017年，在高校第4轮数学一级学科评估中入选A类名单，并入选首轮“双一流”建设学科名单。2019年入选国家级一流本科专业建设点。2020年，入选基础学科拔尖2.0数学拔尖人才培养基地；联合北京大学和北京应用物理与计算数学研究所相关研究团队，获批国家重点研发计划重点专项项目。2021年入选教育部和科技部高等学校学科创新引智基地。2022年入选第二轮“双一流”建设学科名单。2023年获批国家大中小数学教材研究基地。
学科包含数学教育、随机数学、分析学、代数学、几何拓扑、偏微分方程、常微分方程与动力系统、计算数学、应用数学共九个学科方向，在基础数学、随机数学及交叉领域、数学教育等方面形成了自己的优势和特色，在国内外同行中具有相当的影响。现有专任教师119人，其中北京校区92人,珠海校区27人，中科院院士 2人、世界科学院院士 1 人、国家海外高层次人才1人、教育部长江学者特聘教授2人、国家杰出青年基金获得者5人、“四青”人才12人、外籍教师 4人。另外，还有博士后23人、短期海外特聘教授6人，其中国家海外高层次人才2人。
学院培养了一大批杰出人才和卓越教师，其中包括中国科学院院士3人，世界科学院院士1人，教育部长江学者特聘教授3人，国家杰出青年基金获得者8人，全国高校教学名师奖2人，万人计划教学名师1人，国家自然科学奖获得者4人，国家科技进步奖获得者3人，新世纪百千万人才工程国家级人选2人，全国百篇优秀博士学位论文获得者2人，中小学数学特级教师至少163人。
(更新日期2023年8月)
The School of Mathematical Sciences (SMS) at Beijing Normal University (BNU) is renowned for its outstanding research in pure and applied mathematics. It began to enroll students as early as 1915 and was a pioneer in the establishment of mathematics in modern China.
SMS researchers have achieved notable results in algebra, analysis, geometry, differential equations, probability, scientific computing, mathematical biology and mathematical education. One extraordinary example is the research group for probability theory led by Professor Mu-fa Chen, the first Innovative Research Group of mathematics funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2002-2010, three stages in nine years). This group has been called “a school” in five reviews by mathematicians abroad. Its members’works are often cited, with their methods or concepts often referred to as “Chen's coupling and distance method”, “Dawson-Li stochastic differential equation”. In the study of virtual knots, Dr. Zhiyun Cheng, a young faculty member, has introduced the concept of chord index by extending the notion of chord parity from Z2 to all integers. As a result, several new index type invariants have been defined in recent years. This method has been named “Cheng coloring” by Louis Kauffman, a leading expert and the founding editor of the Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications.
At present, the SMS has a faculty of 85 members: two academicians of the Chinese Academy of Science (one of whom is also an academician of the Third World Academy of Sciences); one key speaker at the International Congress of Mathematics (ICM); four winners of the National Outstanding Youth Fund of China; one Fellow of the American Mathematical Society; and one Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in America. Faculty members sever on as many as sixty editorial boards of various academic journals and book series.
The SMS has comprehensive undergraduate/graduate programs and puts a premium on the overall capacity in research, teaching, application and management. Guaranteed a good knowledge of both basic mathematics and its newest developments, students are enabled to be creative in research and competent in teaching. It boasts many brilliant graduate students, such as Mu-fa Chen, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Science and of the Third World Academy of Science; Shouzheng Tang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Science; Songxi Chen, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Science; Runze Li, chief editor of The Annals of Statistics, a noted journal in statistics; Yun Liu, the ex-vice CEO of Google, now Chief Business Officer of Qihoo 360. At least 156 alumni are leading teachers in middle schools, and twelve Ph.D. graduates were the winners of the Humboldt Research Fellowship.
(Updated November 2021 )
