Students and faculty in the Mathematics Department have offices in Padelford Hall overlooking Lake Washington and the Cascades, with a view of Mount Rainier to the southeast. The mathematics lounge, where afternoon tea is served daily, is a convenient meeting place for faculty and students.

The Mathematics Research Library, located in the same building, has an outstanding collection of over 47,000 volumes in mathematics and statistics, and subscribes to more than 500 serials. In addition, separate collections in applied mathematics, computer science, and physics are available at other nearby libraries on campus.  All of the important on-line databases are available by computer from any location on campus, including MathSciNet's on-line reviews of mathematics research papers and an ever-growing number of journals whose full text is available on the Internet.

The department has its own dedicated computing facilities in Padelford, built around high performance file and compute servers connected to more than 100 workstations, running Windows, RedHat Linux, or Macintosh OS. The department supports a full range of software, including Maple, Mathematica, Matlab, Splus, TeX, and Microsoft Office. Every grad student office is equipped with a workstation directly connected to the department's network and to the Internet.