Category: News

Fri 2 Oct 2009News

Cambridge mathematician Professor Keith Moffatt, FRS, has been honoured for a career which has combined world class research in applied mathematicians with determined efforts to draw mathematicians together from around the world.

Event Date: Tue 29 Sep 2009South West and Wales

29th September 2009, 6:30pm The Unquiet Sun, Prof Michael Proctor ScD FRS FIMA Abstract To the naked eye (should one […]

Fri 18 Sep 2009News

Maths teachers are feeling increasingly obliged to buy textbooks and other teaching resources endorsed by examining boards and written by examiners, fearing that their pupils would be disadvantaged if they did not.

Event Date: Mon 7 Sep 2009Conferences

Date: Monday 7 – Wednesday 9 September 2009 Location: University of York Computer-based methods for the capture, construction, representation, fitting, […]

Thu 20 Aug 2009News

The number of A-Level Mathematics entries across the UK is up 12.2% on last year, with 72,475 students sitting the exam. The number of entries is now higher than it has been for 17 years.

Wed 19 Aug 2009News

New research from specialist recruiters, Robert Half has found that nearly two thirds of Executives, Finance and Human Resource Managers in the UK think that the Mathematics skills of today’s graduates are worse than they were 10 years ago.

Wed 22 Jul 2009News

Sir David Wallace, chair of the Council for the Mathematical Sciences, welcomed the IUSS report.

Fri 10 Jul 2009News

The UK’s learned and professional societies for mathematics today underlined their support for a new A-level aimed at students who want to be able to apply mathematical methods.

Event Date: Thu 25 Jun 2009Midlands

Friday 19th September 2008. Knots. A talk by Dr Stephen Huggett (Plymouth University). 7.30 p.m. in the Law Court Lecture […]

Mon 15 Jun 2009News

A new programme designed to help university mathematical sciences, physics, chemistry and engineering departments to increase the number of students graduating from science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) courses