History

Department of "Mathematics and Methods of teaching Mathematics" was founded in 1967  in Zhambyl Pedagogical Institute. In the early years the  department was headed by   K. Abdulgafarov,  Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences., Associate Professor.
By the beginning of the 1968-1969 academic year the  Department  "Mathematics and Physics" was divided into two separate departments :  Mathematics and Physics. After that, the department of "Higher Mathematics" was  created,  the head of the department was  an experienced representative of public education I. Pak .  In 1969, along with the department of "Higher Mathematics"   the department of "Algebra and Geometry"  was formed  and  headed by  T.T.Taubaev , an experienced teacher of Mathematics  of high school.
In 1970, the head of the department of "Higher Mathematics" was elected K.K.Nagmetzhanov, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical sciences, Associate  professor.
In 1974, the department of "Higher Mathematics" was renamed to "Mathematical analysis and the Theory of Functions." In 1985-1986  the Department of "Algebra and Geometry" was  headed by  M . Muratbekov, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical sciences, Associate professor.

Those years  in  the department a special course on Functional Analysis  was taught  by the  rector of the university professor  M.Otelbaev. Now  he is  an academician  of the National Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan, winner of the State Prize of the Republic of Kazakhstan,  famous Kazakh Mathematician  . According to his assistance and guidance  those years Physics and Mathematics classes were formed  at the regional boarding school named after S. Makarenko (now the Kazakh-Turkish High School), and Urban Seminar "Functional Analysis and its Applications" known all over the country began to work .  Now for more than 26 years  this workshop has successfully continued its work under the supervision of Professor M. Muratbekov.

At present  the staff  of the department  consists  of  two doctors, six candidates of sciences , four senior teachers, one teacher and one assistant.   Since September 2010, the department of "Mathematics and MTM" is headed by Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor M. Muratbekov. He is well-known scientist in the country and abroad, currently in Taraz his school  is  formed. In 2007, Professor M.Muratbekov   was   conferred  the title  "The best teacher of the higher educational institutions of Kazakhstan."

The  famous scholars and experts from leading universities and research centers of  Kazakhstan  and abroad  are invited  to  conduct   the   special courses and  to supervise  Master's theses . They are : a professor at Moscow University and  L.  Gumilev State  Eurasian National University;  a laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Kazakhstan,  academician M.  Otelbaev ; head of the department of the Eurasian National University, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences,  Professor K. Ospanov; professor at the Free University of Berlin, Heinrich Beger; professor of the University of Friendship of Peoples (Moscow), Doctor of Sciences  G.A.Kalyabin ; head of the laboratory "Differential Equations" of the Institute of Mathematics of RK  NAS ;  professor D.S.Dzhumabaev and other leading scientists.
Also, the department established a close academic and creative connection with MSU,  University of  Novosibirsk, and Berlin, University of Friendship of Peoples (Moscow).
At the department  great  attention is paid to the organization  of the research work of teachers. A long-term plan of research is  developed. Basically, all the members of the department are involved in the implementation of a state budgetary topics under the guidance of Professor M. Muratbekov.