Mathematics has been present at the University of Science and Technology since its origin. The first Rector of the University was a mathematician, Professor Antoni Hoborski.

In 1969 the existing Departments of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry were joined to form the Institute of Mathematics, an interfaculty unit whose staff members taught in all faculties. This became the Faculty of Applied Mathematics by the decision of the Senate in 1997.

The Faculty runs MSc. degree courses in applied mathematics focusing on providing students with practical skills in using mathematical methods in various fields such as financial mathematics, computer science, management, materials engineering, electronics, automatics, mechanics, telecommunications and other areas of technology. This enables the graduates to co-operate with experts in other areas and find employment in industry, banks, insurance companies, administration and education.

The research activities cover various areas of mathematics and its applications including among others discrete mathematics, in particular graph theory, functional analysis, numerical methods, computational mathematics, statistics, differential equations, geometry, stochastic analysis applied to finance. The Faculty has the right to award PhD in mathematics.