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In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, Oxford was joint first (with the University of Cambridge) for applied mathematics [21] and third for pure mathematics. [22] In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework , the institute submitted jointly with the Department of Statistics, getting the highest placement for mathematical sciences in the UK. [ 23 ]
Twenty six courses were made available to students in the first year of the collaboration, with topics from diverse areas of mathematics including number theory, partial differential equations, random matrix theory, and group theory. One of the aims of the project was to encourage contact between postgraduate mathematics students at the five ...
The Mods course in Classics (Literae Humaniores) runs for the first five terms of the course.The traditional aim was for students to develop their ability to read fluently in Latin (especially the Aeneid of Virgil) and Greek (concentrating on the Iliad and the Odyssey); this remains the case today, but the course has changed to reflect the continuing decline in the numbers of applicants who ...
Today [quantify] students on all three undergraduate courses - 'Computer Science', 'Maths & Computer Science' and 'Computer Science & Philosophy' - have the choice between a 3-year BA or a 4-year 'undergraduate masters'. [11] Sixty students began one of the three undergraduate courses in October 2013. [12]
The Oxford University Invariant Society, or 'The Invariants', is a university society open to members of the University of Oxford, dedicated to promotion of interest in mathematics. [1] The society regularly hosts talks from professional mathematicians on topics both technical and more popular, from the mathematics of juggling to the history of ...
MSc (1973), DPhil Mathematics Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cardiff; studied as an undergraduate at New College and moved to Jesus College in 1972 [10] John Griffiths (F) 1856 1862 BA Mathematics (1st, 1860), MA (1862) Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics, with a particular interest in analytical geometry [11] [12] [13] Nigel Hitchin ...
Alain Goriely FRS is a Belgian mathematician, currently holding the statutory professorship (chair) of mathematical modelling [4] at the University of Oxford, Mathematical Institute. He is director of the Oxford Centre for Industrial Mathematics (OCIAM), [ 5 ] of the International Brain and Mechanics Lab (IBMTL) [ 6 ] and Professorial Fellow at ...
Anne Watson FIMA is a British mathematics educator. She is a professor emeritus in the department of education at the University of Oxford, where she was a fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. She is a Fellow of the International Society for Design and Development in Education and of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications. [1]