北京師范大學數學科學學院成立于2004年，其前身是1915年創建的北京高等師范學校數理部，1922年成立數學系，1983年成立數學與數學教育研究所。學院現有教職工96人，其中教授39人,副教授31人；專任教師中有博士學位的教師占98%。特別地，有中國科學院院士2人，第三世界科學院院士1人，全國高校教學名師獎1人，教育部長江學者獎勵計劃特聘教授3人、講座教授1人、青年學者1人，國家杰出青年基金獲得者3人、國家優秀青年基金獲得者2人，入選新世紀百千萬人才工程國家級人選2人。現有全日制在校生1290人，其中本科生964人，碩士研究生228人，博士研究生98人。

　　數學科學學院1981年獲基礎數學、概率論與數理統計博士學位授予權，1986年獲應用數學博士學位授予權。1988年，基礎數學、概率論與數理統計被評為國家重點學科。1990年建立了北京師范大學第一個博士后流動站。1996年，數學學科成為國家211工程重點建設的學科。1997年成為國家基礎科學人才培養基金基地。1998年獲數學一級學科博士學位授予權。2001年概率論方向被評為國家自然科學基金創新群體。2005年進入“985工程”科技創新基礎建設平臺。2007年數學被評為一級學科國家重點學科。2008年數學與應用數學專業師范教育方向獲第一批高等學校特色專業建設點。2009年教育部數學與復雜系統重點實驗室掛牌，分析類課程教學團隊被評為國家級優秀教學團隊，調和分析與流形的幾何方向被評為教育部創新團隊。2017年在高校第4輪數學一級學科評估中排名A類。2017年9月，數學學科進入世界一流建設學科名單。目前數學學科在多種國際學科排名中位列前100名，比如美國USNEWS全球最佳大學世界最佳數學學科排名中，2018/2017/2016分別排名第45/30/29名；2007年以來ESI國際學科排名一直保持前1%，2018/2017/2016三年分別排名第77/79/87名。

　　103年來，數學科學學院已畢業全日制本科生8687人(不含輔仁大學數學系畢業生)，已授予博士學位476人，碩士學位1956人，研究生班畢業209人。據不完全統計，在博士畢業生中:當選為中科院院士2人和第三世界科學院院士1人，獲全國高校教學名師獎2人，入選萬人計劃教學名師1人，任教育部長江學者特聘教授3人，中國科學院百人計劃1人，獲國家杰出青年基金6人，獲國家自然科學獎4人，獲國家科技進步獎3人，入選新世紀百千萬人才工程國家級人選2人，入選全國百篇優秀博士學位論文2篇。

　　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. Among its members, the most famous are Zenghu Li and Fengyu Wang, both of whom are Chang Jiang Scholars, China's most prestigious academic honor. Their works are often cited, with their methods or concepts often referred to as “Chen's coupling and distance method”, “Wang's Harnack inequality”, “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 81 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); three Chang Jiang Scholars; four winners of the National Outstanding Youth Fund of China; one highly cited scholar selected by Elsevier in 2014-2018; two Fellows 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 BNU School of Mathematics is now among the top 100 in many international ratings and ranks 45th/30th /29th on the US News Best Global Universities list in 2018/2017/2016. Since 2007, it has been in the top 1% as rated by Essential Science Indicator (ESI) International Academic Rankings, ranking 77th /79th /87th in 2018/2017/2016.

　　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; 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. By now, there have been as many as 476 students awarded Ph.D. degrees and 1956 have earned MA degrees. At least 156 alumni are leading teachers in middle schools, and twelve Ph.D. graduates were the winners of the Humboldt Research Fellowship.