Mathematics

Mathematics

Applicants for all courses offered by the Maths Department are made an offer based on whether they take Further Maths. The course contains a core of 75% Mathematics in Year One and 55% Mathematics in Year Two. You may choose...

The Role of Random Events in Extinction

Researchers assess the risk of species extinction with conservation models that combine factors that drive down populations--including habitat loss, hunting and overfishing--with the probability of chance disasters affecting...

PARC Forum: "What is Computation?"

Leslie Lamport, Microsoft Research We depend on computer systems that are not dependable. No one knows how to solve this problem, and I don't pretend to. But a better understanding of what those systems do just might help a...

BW Online | March 16, 2004 | America's Failure in Science Education

The shortage of science and technology grads threatens the U.S. economy, and Washington's help is badly needed to tackle the problem For anyone concerned about strengthening America's long-term leadership in science and...

Carnegie Learning Curricula Approved by Kentucky State Textbook Commission Through 2015

Carnegie Learning, Inc., a publisher of research-based math curricula for middle schools, high schools, and the higher education market, announced today that the Kentucky State Textbook Commission h.. - Read more

Applied group to host 7th Mathematics in Medicine Study Group

The 7th Mathematics in Medicine Study Group will be hosted by the Applied Maths Group in the School of Mathematics, University of Southampton from 10-14 of September 2007, bringing together athematicians with experimentalists...

Major Success for Maths Postgraduate Training

All four research groups in the School of Mathematics have been successful in their bids for EPSRC Taught Course Centres for PhD Students in Mathematical Sciences. A total of £2.46m was awarded for the next 5 years to fund to 5...

Major grant for Maths, Statistics, Bio- and Nano-engineering

Researchers in the School of Mathematics, Southampton Statistical Research Institute (S3RI) and the School of Engineering Sciences at the University of Southampton have won nearly £0.5 million from the EPSRC to fund...

The A-team comes to Southampton

Two brothers who have stacked up 11 A-grades at A-level between them will be studying in in the School of Mathematics this autumn. Both are win receipt of a Golden Jubilee Scholarship, which pays for all undergraduate tuition...

Röhrle to Run Newton Institute Programme

A pure mathematics professor in the School of Mathematics has been chosen to run a six month international research programme at the Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge. Professor Gerhard Röhrle will be one...