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Hobson James Jeans Harold Jeffreys, fellow of St John's College, Cambridge 1914–1989; Plumian Professor of Astronomy 1946-1958 Vinod Johri, Commonwealth fellow for post-doctorate work at Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University, 1967-1968 Thomas Jones, mathematician, fellow of Tri... | Wikipedia - List of Cambridge mathematicians - G - M | 278 | 1,389 | null |
Section: N - S. Crispin St. J. A. Nash-Williams Max Newman, fellow of St John's College, Cambridge Isaac Newton, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 1667–1701; Lucasian Professor of Mathematics 1669-1702 Richard Nickl, fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Professor of Mathematical Statistics James R. Norri... | Wikipedia - List of Cambridge mathematicians - N - S | 345 | 1,622 | null |
Section: T - Z. G. I. Taylor, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge Martin J. Taylor, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge Richard Taylor, fellow of Clare College, Cambridge John G. Thompson, fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge; Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics 1971-1993 Alan Turing, fellow of King's College, Camb... | Wikipedia - List of Cambridge mathematicians - T - Z | 263 | 1,283 | null |
Section: Research centres and institutes. The Faculty is closely involved with the following research centres and institutes: UCL Centre for Materials Research UCL Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology (CoMPLEX) - an inter-disciplinary virtual centre that seeks to bring togeth... | Wikipedia - UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences - Research centres and institutes | 221 | 1,192 | null |
Section: Rankings. In the 2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities, UCL is ranked joint 51st to 75th in the world (and joint 12th in Europe) for Natural Sciences and Mathematics. In the 2013 QS World University Rankings, UCL is ranked 38th in the world (and 12th in Europe) for Natural Sciences. In the 2014 QS World ... | Wikipedia - UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences - Rankings | 208 | 944 | null |
Section: Life. Sue Chandler became the author of Mathematics textbooks when such books were the exclusive realm of men; the books became staples of Mathematics teaching throughout the world. Sue and her colleague Linda Bostock, when teaching at Southgate Technical College in the 1970s, could find no suitable textbook t... | Wikipedia - Sue Chandler - Life | 349 | 1,746 | null |
Section: Selected publications. Textbooks L Bostock & F S Chandler (1975), Applied Mathematics, Vol. 1, Stanley Thornes L Bostock & F S Chandler (1976), Applied Mathematics, Vol. 2, Stanley Thornes L Bostock & F S Chandler (1978), Pure Mathematics, Vol. 1, Stanley Thornes L Bostock & F S Chandler (1979), Pure Mathemati... | Wikipedia - Sue Chandler - Selected publications | 306 | 1,134 | null |
Article: Chartered Mathematician. Chartered Mathematician (CMath) is a professional qualification in Mathematics awarded to professional practising mathematicians by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) in the United Kingdom. Chartered Mathematician is the IMA's highest professional qualification; ac... | Wikipedia - Chartered Mathematician - Summary | 167 | 972 | null |
Section: Popularity and impact. The popularity of Arithmetick is unquestioned by its more than 130 editions, and that its place was woven in the fabric of the popular culture of the time is evidenced by its references in the phrase, "according to Cocker", meaning "absolutely correct" or "according to the rules". Such n... | Wikipedia - Cocker's Arithmetick - Popularity and impact | 150 | 710 | null |
Section: Writing style. Though popular, like most texts of its time, Arithmetick style is formal, stiff and difficult to follow as illustrated in its explanation of the "rule of three". Again, observe, that of the three given numbers, those two that are of the same kind, one of them must be the first, and the other the... | Wikipedia - Cocker's Arithmetick - Writing style | 240 | 1,157 | null |
Article: Cocker's Decimal Arithmetick. Cocker's Decimal Arithmetick is a grammar school mathematics textbook written by the English engraver and teacher Edward Cocker (1631–1676) and published posthumously by John Hawkins in 1684. Decimal Arithmetick along with the companion volume Cocker's Arithmetick, published in 16... | Wikipedia - Cocker's Decimal Arithmetick - Summary | 226 | 1,118 | null |
Section: Education and career. Cundy attended Monkton Combe School and then read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he earned a PhD in quantum theory in 1938. In 1937, Cundy was awarded the Cambridge University Rayleigh Prize for Mathematical Physics (now known as the Rayleigh-Knight Prize) for an essay e... | Wikipedia - Martyn Cundy - Education and career | 304 | 1,509 | null |
Section: Personal life. He married Kathleen Ethel ("Kittie") Hemmings in 1939 and had three children, including Ian Cundy, successively Bishop of Lewes and of Peterborough. Martyn Cundy was a devout Christian and especially notable for his ecumenical views toward worship. In 1932 he was secretary of the Cambridge Unive... | Wikipedia - Martyn Cundy - Personal life | 201 | 967 | null |
Section: Content. The report found that there was a reduction in the numbers of people entering science and engineering at university. The report was also known as the Enquiry into the Flow of Candidates in Science and Technology into Higher Education. Around 40,000 of those at sixth-form were studying science in 1964;... | Wikipedia - Dainton Report - Content | 333 | 1,593 | null |
Section: Content > Recommendations. All should study Mathematics until the end of secondary school, and should study arts and sciences. Those in the sixth form should study five subjects, not just two or three. The five subjects should include Mathematics, a science, a social study and a language. University entrance s... | Wikipedia - Dainton Report - Content > Recommendations | 186 | 982 | null |
Section: Programme. The concept came about from a BBC survey of 2,800 parents, teachers and children. The survey showed that parents were unwilling to assist children with homework due to not wanting to impose on them or risk upsetting teachers. DynaMo was created as a result. The programme designed for an eight week r... | Wikipedia - DynaMo - Programme | 200 | 1,056 | null |
Article: Rob Eastaway. Rob Eastaway is an English author. He is active in the popularisation of mathematics and was awarded the Zeeman medal in 2017 for excellence in the promotion of maths. He is best known for his books, including the bestselling Why Do Buses Come in Threes? and Maths for Mums and Dads. His first boo... | Wikipedia - Rob Eastaway - Summary | 216 | 1,004 | null |
Section: Books. 1992: What is a Googly? 1995: The Guinness Book of Mindbenders, co-author David Wells 1998: Why do Buses Come in Threes?, co-author Jeremy Wyndham, foreword by Tim Rice 1999: The Memory Kit 2002: How Long is a Piece of String?, co-author Jeremy Wyndham 2004: How to Remember 2005: How to Take a Penalty, ... | Wikipedia - Rob Eastaway - Books | 245 | 948 | null |
Section: History. The Society was founded in 1883 by a group of Edinburgh school teachers and academics, on the initiative of Alexander Yule Fraser FRSE and Andrew Jeffrey Gunion Barclay FRSE, both maths teachers at George Watson's College, and Cargill Gilston Knott, the assistant of Peter Guthrie Tait, professor of ph... | Wikipedia - Edinburgh Mathematical Society - History | 292 | 1,570 | null |
Article: Eureka (University of Cambridge magazine). Eureka is a journal published annually by The Archimedeans, the mathematical society of Cambridge University. It is one of the oldest recreational mathematics publications still in existence. Eureka includes many mathematical articles on a variety of different topics ... | Wikipedia - Eureka (University of Cambridge magazine) - Summary | 299 | 1,475 | null |
Article: European Study Groups with Industry. A European Study Group with Industry (ESGI) is usually a week-long meeting where applied mathematicians work on problems presented by industry and research centres. The aim of the meeting is to solve or at least make progress on the problems. The study group concept origina... | Wikipedia - European Study Groups with Industry - Summary | 182 | 984 | null |
Section: History. The original Study Groups with Industry started in Oxford in 1968. The format provided a method for initiating interaction between universities and private industry which often led to further collaboration, student projects and new fields of research (many advances in the field of free or moving bound... | Wikipedia - European Study Groups with Industry - History | 326 | 1,780 | null |
Section: List of recent meetings. Past European meetings are listed on the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry website. International meetings are covered by the Mathematics in Industry Information Service. Recent ESGIs include: ESGI 150, Basque Centre for Applied Mathematics, 21–25 October 2019 ESGI 144, W... | Wikipedia - European Study Groups with Industry - List of recent meetings | 180 | 715 | null |
Article: Exeter Mathematics School. Exeter Mathematics School is a maths school located in Exeter in the English county of Devon. It opened in September 2014 under the free schools initiative and is sponsored by Exeter College and the University of Exeter. It is intended to be a regional centre of excellence in mathema... | Wikipedia - Exeter Mathematics School - Summary | 234 | 1,215 | null |
Section: Holders. Previous holders of the Fielden Chair (and lectureship) are: A. T. Bentley (1876–1880) Lecturer in Pure Mathematics J. E. A. Steggall (1880–1883) Lecturer in Pure Mathematics R. F. Gwyther (1883–1907) Lecturer in Mathematics F. T. Swanwick (1907–1912) Lecturer in Mathematics H. R. Hasse (1912–1918) Le... | Wikipedia - Fielden Professor of Pure Mathematics - Holders | 167 | 596 | null |
Section: Overview. Fox studied mathematics as a scholar of Christ Church, Oxford graduating with a first in 1939 and continued to undertake research in the engineering department. While working on his D.Phil. in computational and engineering mathematics under the supervision of Sir Richard Southwell he was also engaged... | Wikipedia - Leslie Fox - Overview | 281 | 1,520 | null |
Section: Mathematical work. A detailed description of Fox's mathematical research can be found in obituaries and is summarised here. His early work with Southwell was concerned with the numerical solution of partial differential equations arising in engineering problems that, due to the complexity of their geometry, di... | Wikipedia - Leslie Fox - Mathematical work | 325 | 1,880 | null |
Section: Fox's wider influence. While Fox influenced the development of numerical analysis through his undergraduate teaching and postgraduate supervision (he supervised around 19 doctoral students), industrial collaboration he also made significant contributions to course material for the Open University. He lectured ... | Wikipedia - Leslie Fox - Fox's wider influence | 327 | 1,760 | null |
Section: Educational standard. They bridge a gap between GCSE and A-Level Mathematics. The advanced course is especially ideal for pupils who do not find GCSE maths particularly challenging and who often have extra time in their second year of GCSEs, having taken their Maths GCSE a year early. The qualification is comm... | Wikipedia - Free-standing Mathematics Qualifications - Educational standard | 169 | 801 | null |
Article: Hannah Fry. Hannah Fry (born 21 February 1984) is a British mathematician, author and broadcaster. She is Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, and president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. She was prev... | Wikipedia - Hannah Fry - Summary | 153 | 865 | null |
Section: Early life and education. Hannah Fry was born in Essex, England, on 21 February 1984, the middle one of three sisters, and raised in Hoddesdon and Ware, Hertfordshire. She is of English and Irish heritage: her father was an English factory worker making hydraulic lifts for lorries and her mother stayed at home... | Wikipedia - Hannah Fry - Early life and education | 178 | 857 | null |
Section: Career and research. Fry was appointed as a lecturer at University College London in 2012, working at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. She was later appointed senior lecturer, then professor in the Mathematics of Cities. In September 2022, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineeri... | Wikipedia - Hannah Fry - Career and research | 150 | 797 | null |
Section: Career and research > Radio and television. Fry began performing stand-up comedy in 2015, leading to a TED Talk and television work. Since then, she has regularly appeared on mainstream media in the UK, including regular appearances in The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry, with Adam Rutherford, on BBC Radio 4... | Wikipedia - Hannah Fry - Career and research > Radio and television | 326 | 1,463 | null |
if I can succeed this will save lives when, not if, a real pandemic hits." The programme used Haslemere, Surrey, as the site of the first simulated infection, and coincidentally in February 2020 the town saw the first recorded case of a person contracting COVID-19 from within the UK. She later hosted a one-off 90-minut... | Wikipedia - Hannah Fry - Career and research > Radio and television | 298 | 1,426 | null |
In July 2022, she presented the BBC Two documentary Unvaccinated, in which she investigated why a portion of the British population remained unvaccinated against COVID-19. Reviewing in The Daily Telegraph, Anita Singh described the show as patronising, commenting that Fry's attempt to explain statistics using "jelly-be... | Wikipedia - Hannah Fry - Career and research > Radio and television | 331 | 1,593 | null |
Section: Career and research > Publications. Fry has authored or co-authored four books. The first, The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs, and the Search for the Ultimate Equation (2015), includes the "37% rule", a form of the secretary problem according to which roughly the first third of any potential partners sh... | Wikipedia - Hannah Fry - Career and research > Publications | 193 | 920 | null |
Section: Career and research > Awards and honours. 2018: Christopher Zeeman Medal from the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) and the London Mathematical Society "for her contributions to the public understanding of the mathematical sciences". 2020: Asimov Prize, a literary-scientific award organised b... | Wikipedia - Hannah Fry - Career and research > Awards and honours | 163 | 820 | null |
Section: Personal life. Fry lives in South London. She co-parents two daughters with her husband, from whom she is separated. Aged 36, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer and underwent a radical hysterectomy. She wrote and presented the documentary "Making Sense of Cancer with Hannah Fry" for BBC2's Horizon about he... | Wikipedia - Hannah Fry - Personal life | 167 | 754 | null |
Section: Career and research. After his PhD, Gowers was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College. From 1991 until his return to Cambridge in 1995 he was lecturer at University College London. He was elected to the Rouse Ball Professorship at Cambridge in 1998. During 2000–2 he was visiting professor a... | Wikipedia - Timothy Gowers - Career and research | 273 | 1,323 | null |
In 1997 he proved that the Szemerédi regularity lemma necessarily comes with tower-type bounds. In 1998, Gowers proved the first effective bounds for Szemerédi's theorem, showing that any subset A ⊂ { 1 , … , N } {\displaystyle A\subset \{1,\dots ,N\}} free of k-term arithmetic progressions has cardinality O ( N ( log ... | Wikipedia - Timothy Gowers - Career and research | 342 | 1,305 | null |
Section: Career and research > Blogging. After asking on his blog whether "massively collaborative mathematics" was possible, he solicited comments on his blog from people who wanted to try to solve mathematical problems collaboratively. The first problem in what is called the Polymath Project, Polymath1, was to find a... | Wikipedia - Timothy Gowers - Career and research > Blogging | 161 | 745 | null |
Section: Personal life. Timothy Gowers was born on 20 November 1963, in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. Gowers's father was Patrick Gowers, a composer; his great-grandfather was Sir Ernest Gowers, a British civil servant who was best known for guides to English usage; and his great-great-grandfather was Sir William Go... | Wikipedia - Timothy Gowers - Personal life | 214 | 966 | null |
Section: Publications > Selected research articles. Gowers, W. T.; Maurey, Bernard (6 May 1992). "The unconditional basic sequence problem". arXiv:math/9205204. Gowers, W. T. (2001). "A new proof of Szemerédi's theorem". Geom. Funct. Anal. 11 (3): 465–588. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.145.2961. doi:10.1007/s00039-001-0332-9. S2CID... | Wikipedia - Timothy Gowers - Publications > Selected research articles | 236 | 548 | null |
Section: Life. Margaret Riley Crann was born on 7 August 1923 in New Earswick in North Yorkshire, where her father Thomas Crann was a research chemist and her mother a teacher; she grew up as a Quaker. After studying at the Mill Mount School in York, she read mathematics and then geography in Newnham College, Cambridge... | Wikipedia - Margaret Hayman - Life | 265 | 1,289 | null |
Section: Contributions. In 1966, Hayman and her husband founded the British Mathematical Olympiad. Hayman took an active part in the meetings of proponents of the competition, helped negotiate the role of the British Olympiad in the International Mathematical Olympiad, and fought for funding for the competition and for... | Wikipedia - Margaret Hayman - Contributions | 167 | 1,005 | null |
Section: Life and work. Hayman was born in Cologne, Germany, the son of Roman law professor Franz Haymann (1874-1947) and Ruth Therese Hensel, daughter of mathematician Kurt Hensel. He was a great-grandson of acclaimed composer Fanny Mendelssohn. Because of his Jewish heritage, he left Germany, then under Nazi rule, al... | Wikipedia - Walter Hayman - Life and work | 240 | 1,092 | null |
Section: Selected publications > Papers. Hayman, W. K. (1952), "Functions with values in a given domain", Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 3 (3): 428–432, doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1952-0049323-9, MR 0049323, Zbl 0048.31402. Hayman, W. K. (1974), "The local growth of power series: a survey of the Wiman-Va... | Wikipedia - Walter Hayman - Selected publications > Papers | 346 | 965 | null |
Atti del simposio internazionale dedicato a Gaetano Fichera nel suo 70o compleanno. Taormina, 15–17 ottobre 1992, Roma: Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Roma La Sapienza – Aracne Editrice, pp. 119–125, MR 1249093, Zbl 0851.42009. Hayman, W. K. (2002), "Univalent and Multivalent Functions", in Kuhnau, Reiner (ed... | Wikipedia - Walter Hayman - Selected publications > Papers | 173 | 476 | null |
Section: Selected publications > Books. Hayman, W. K. (1964), Meromorphic functions, Oxford Mathematical Monographs, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. XIV+191, MR 0164038, Zbl 0115.06203. Hayman, W. K. (1967), Research Problems in Function Theory, London: Athlone Press, pp. vii+56. Hayman, W. K.; Kennedy, P. B. (1976), Subh... | Wikipedia - Walter Hayman - Selected publications > Books | 347 | 1,005 | null |
Section: History. HegartyMaths was created by co-founders and teachers Colin Hegarty and Brian Arnold. In 2011 they started to make maths videos on YouTube to support their own classes with maths homework and revision. Since the videos were freely available on YouTube, students from all over the country and the world s... | Wikipedia - HegartyMaths - History | 300 | 1,288 | null |
Section: Awards and honours. In the 2004 New Year Honours, Hoyles was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) 'for services to education'. In the 2014 New Year Honours, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in recognition of her service as director of the National ... | Wikipedia - Celia Hoyles - Awards and honours | 209 | 1,026 | null |
Section: Governance > IMA president. The president normally serves a two-year term. This is a list of the presidents of the IMA: 1964–1966: Sir James Lighthill FRS 1966–1967: Professor Sir Bryan Thwaites 1968–1969: Dr Peter Wakely FRS 1970–1971: Professor George Barnard 1972–1973: Professor Charles Coulson FRS 1974–197... | Wikipedia - Institute of Mathematics and its Applications - Governance > IMA president | 306 | 1,264 | null |
Section: Education activities. The IMA runs a wide range of mathematical activities through the Higher Education Services Area and the Schools and Further Education Group committees. The IMA operates a Programme Approval Scheme, which provides an 'approval in principle' for degree courses that meet the educational requ... | Wikipedia - Institute of Mathematics and its Applications - Education activities | 249 | 1,384 | null |
Section: Prizes. The councils of the IMA and the London Mathematical Society jointly award the Christopher Zeeman Medal, dedicated to recognising excellence in the communication of mathematics and the David Crighton Award dedicated to the recognition of service to mathematics and the wider mathematics community. The IM... | Wikipedia - Institute of Mathematics and its Applications - Prizes | 172 | 908 | null |
Section: Interaction with other bodies. Along with the London Mathematical Society, the Royal Statistical Society, the Edinburgh Mathematical Society and the Operational Research Society, forms the Council for the Mathematical Sciences. The IMA is a member of the Joint Mathematical Council (JMC) and informs the deliber... | Wikipedia - Institute of Mathematics and its Applications - Interaction with other bodies | 200 | 1,153 | null |
Section: Certificates. In the Junior and Intermediate Challenges the top scoring 50% of the entrants receive bronze, silver or gold certificates based on their mark in the paper. In the Senior Mathematical Challenge these certificates are awarded to top scoring 66% of the entries. In each case bronze, silver and gold c... | Wikipedia - United Kingdom Mathematics Trust - Certificates | 186 | 857 | null |
Section: Junior Mathematical Challenge. The Junior Mathematical Challenge (JMC) is an introductory challenge for pupils in Years 8 or below (aged 13) or below, taking place in spring each year. This takes the form of twenty-five multiple choice questions to be sat in exam conditions, to be completed within one hour. Th... | Wikipedia - United Kingdom Mathematics Trust - Junior Mathematical Challenge | 193 | 913 | null |
Section: Junior Mathematical Challenge > Junior Mathematical Olympiad. The highest 1200 scorers are also invited to take part in the Junior Mathematical Olympiad (JMO). Like the JMC, the JMO is sat in schools. Students are given 120 minutes to complete the JMO. This is also divided into two sections. Part A is composed... | Wikipedia - United Kingdom Mathematics Trust - Junior Mathematical Challenge > Junior Mathematical Olympiad | 301 | 1,382 | null |
Section: Intermediate Mathematical Challenge. The Intermediate Mathematical Challenge (IMC) is aimed at school years equivalent to English Years 9-11, taking place in winter each year. Following the same structure as the JMC, this paper presents the student with twenty-five multiple choice questions to be done under ex... | Wikipedia - United Kingdom Mathematics Trust - Intermediate Mathematical Challenge | 216 | 1,123 | null |
Section: Intermediate Mathematical Challenge > Intermediate Mathematical Olympiad. To prevent this getting confused with the International Mathematical Olympiad, this is often abbreviated to the IMOK Olympiad (IMOK = Intermediate Mathematical Olympiad and Kangaroo). The IMOK is sat by the top 500 scorers from each scho... | Wikipedia - United Kingdom Mathematics Trust - Intermediate Mathematical Challenge > Intermediate Mathematical Olympiad | 342 | 1,599 | null |
Section: Intermediate Mathematical Challenge > European Kangaroo. The European Kangaroo is a competition which follows the same structure as the AMC (Australian Mathematics Competition). There are twenty-five multiple-choice questions and no penalty marking. This paper is taken throughout Europe by over 3 million pupil... | Wikipedia - United Kingdom Mathematics Trust - Intermediate Mathematical Challenge > European Kangaroo | 175 | 935 | null |
Section: Senior Mathematical Challenge. The Senior Mathematical Challenge (SMC) takes place in late-autumn each year, and is open to students who are aged 19 or below and are not registered to attend a university. SMC consists of twenty-five multiple choice questions to be answered in 90 minutes. All candidates start w... | Wikipedia - United Kingdom Mathematics Trust - Senior Mathematical Challenge | 211 | 1,062 | null |
Section: Senior Mathematical Challenge > British Mathematical Olympiad. Round 1 of the Olympiad is a three-and-a-half hour examination including six more difficult, long answer questions, which serve to test entrants' problem-solving skills. As of 2005, a more accessible first question was added to the paper; before th... | Wikipedia - United Kingdom Mathematics Trust - Senior Mathematical Challenge > British Mathematical Olympiad | 157 | 774 | null |
Section: Team Challenge. The UKMT Team Maths Challenge is an annual event. One team from each participating school, comprising four pupils selected from year 8 and 9 (ages 12–14), competes in a regional round. No more than 2 pupils on a team may be from Year 9. There are over 60 regional competitions in the UK, held be... | Wikipedia - United Kingdom Mathematics Trust - Team Challenge | 243 | 1,123 | null |
Article: International Centre for Mathematical Sciences. The International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) is a mathematical research centre based in Edinburgh. According to its website, the centre is "designed to bring together mathematicians and practitioners in science, industry and commerce for research wor... | Wikipedia - International Centre for Mathematical Sciences - Summary | 212 | 1,204 | null |
Section: Members. The participating bodies are Adults Learning Mathematics Association of Teachers of Mathematics Association of Mathematics Education Teachers British Society for the History of Mathematics British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics HoDoMS Edinburgh Mathematical Society Institute of Mathema... | Wikipedia - Joint Mathematical Council - Members | 150 | 1,131 | null |
Section: History. Started in 1966, the project originated at Ridgewaye School, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells which closed its doors in 1991. K.M.P went through several titles including "An Auto-Instructional Course in Mathematics" and "The Ridgewaye Individualized Course". The system was inspired by the self-directed l... | Wikipedia - Kent Mathematics Project - History | 153 | 730 | null |
Section: Usage. To teach a specific concept, the teacher selected a set of twelve tasks called a "matrix" from a material bank for the pupil to complete. The teacher was expected to be available to mentor pupils if they encountered difficulty. The tasks were completed in any order, then self-corrected by the pupil and ... | Wikipedia - Kent Mathematics Project - Usage | 184 | 905 | null |
Article: King's College London Mathematics School. King's College London Mathematics School, also known as King's Maths School or KCLMS, is a maths school located in the Lambeth area of London, England. King's College London Mathematics School is run in partnership with King's College London. The school was inspired by... | Wikipedia - King's College London Mathematics School - Summary | 349 | 1,761 | null |
In their first year, students also choose between an AS-level in either computer science or economics, and complete a substantive, collaborative research project ("King's Certificate") with briefs set by academics and industry professionals. In their second year, students can engage with a unique programme of extension... | Wikipedia - King's College London Mathematics School - Summary | 241 | 1,170 | null |
Article: Lancaster University School of Mathematics. Lancaster University School of Mathematics, also known as LUSoM, is a maths school located in Preston, Lancashire, England. As a maths school, it is a specialist mathematics free school sixth form college. The school was set up by the Rigby Education Trust, a single-... | Wikipedia - Lancaster University School of Mathematics - Summary | 240 | 1,217 | null |
Section: History. The Society was established on 16 January 1865, the first president being Augustus De Morgan. The earliest meetings were held in University College, but the Society soon moved into Burlington House, Piccadilly. The initial activities of the Society included talks and publication of a journal. The LMS ... | Wikipedia - London Mathematical Society - History | 203 | 1,042 | null |
Article: Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry. The Lowndean chair of Astronomy and Geometry is one of the two major Professorships in Astronomy (alongside the Plumian Professorship) and a major Professorship in Mathematics at Cambridge University. It was founded in 1749 by Thomas Lowndes, an astronomer from Ove... | Wikipedia - Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry - Summary | 243 | 1,267 | null |
Article: Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. The Lucasian Chair of Mathematics () is a mathematics professorship in the University of Cambridge, England; its holder is known as the Lucasian Professor. The post was founded in 1663 by Henry Lucas, who was Cambridge University's Member of Parliament in 1639–1640, and it wa... | Wikipedia - Lucasian Professor of Mathematics - Summary | 174 | 850 | null |
Section: History. Henry Lucas, in his will, bequeathed his library of 4,000 volumes to the university and left instructions for the purchase of land whose yielding should provide £100 a year for the founding of a professorship. It is the third oldest chair of mathematics in Great Britain, after the Gresham Professor of... | Wikipedia - Lucasian Professor of Mathematics - History | 289 | 1,419 | null |
Section: Inquiry and report. Making Mathematics Count is the title of a report on mathematics education in the United Kingdom (U.K.). The report was written by Adrian Smith as leader of an "Inquiry into Post–14 Mathematics Education", which was commissioned by the UK Government in 2002. The purpose of the Inquiry was: ... | Wikipedia - Making Mathematics Count - Inquiry and report | 212 | 1,188 | null |
Section: History. It was founded in 1871 as the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching and renamed to the Mathematical Association in 1897. It was the first teachers' subject organisation formed in England. In March 1927, it held a three-day meeting in Grantham to commemorate the bicentenary of the dea... | Wikipedia - Mathematical Association - History | 178 | 907 | null |
Section: Past presidents. Past presidents of The Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching included: 1871 Thomas Archer Hirst 1878 Robert Baldwin Hayward MA, FRS 1889 G M Minchin MA, FRS 1891 James Joseph Sylvester 1892 The Reverend C Taylor DD 1893 R Wormell MA, DSc 1895 Joseph Larmor Past presidents of ... | Wikipedia - Mathematical Association - Past presidents | 313 | 1,403 | null |
Hodge 1955 G L Parsons MA 1956 George Frederick James Temple 1957 W J Langford JP, MSc 1958 Max Newman 1959 Louise Doris Adams 1960 Edwin A. Maxwell 1961 J T Combridge MA, MSc 1962 Professor V C A Ferraro PhD, DIC 1963 J B Morgan MA 1964 Ida Busbridge 1965 Elizabeth Williams 1966 F W Kellaway BSc 1967 A.P. Rollett 1968... | Wikipedia - Mathematical Association - Past presidents | 271 | 1,026 | null |
Roy Ashley 1996 W. P. Richardson MBE 1997 Tony Gardiner 1998 Professor J Chris Robson 1999 John S Berry 2000 Mr Stephen Abbott BSc, MSc 2001 Dr Sue Sanders Cert.Ed, BA, MEd, PhD 2002 Mr Barry Lewis BSc, BA, FIMA 2003 Christopher Zeeman 2004 Professor Adam McBride OBE 2005 Sue Singer 2006 Mr Doug French 2007 Rob Eastawa... | Wikipedia - Mathematical Association - Past presidents | 174 | 777 | null |
Section: Origin. In its classical nineteenth-century form, the tripos was a distinctive written examination of undergraduate students of the University of Cambridge. Prior to 1824, the Mathematical Tripos was formally known as the "Senate House Examination". From about 1780 to 1909, the "Old Tripos" was distinguished b... | Wikipedia - Mathematical Tripos - Origin | 263 | 1,280 | null |
Section: Origin > Influence. According to the study Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics by Andrew Warwick during this period the style of teaching and study required for the successful preparation of students had a wide influence: on the development of 'mixed mathematics' (a precursor of l... | Wikipedia - Mathematical Tripos - Origin > Influence | 235 | 1,267 | null |
Section: Origin > Wranglers and their coaches. The list of wranglers (the candidates awarded a first-class degree) became in time the subject of a great deal of public attention. According to Alexander Macfarlane To obtain high honours in the Mathematical Tripos, a student must put himself in special training under a m... | Wikipedia - Mathematical Tripos - Origin > Wranglers and their coaches | 327 | 1,787 | null |
Warwick notes that college teaching improved toward the end of the 19th century: The expansion of intercollegiate and university lectures at all levels through the 1880s and 1890s meant that, by 1900, it had become unnecessary for coaches either to lecture students or even to provide them with manuscripts covering the ... | Wikipedia - Mathematical Tripos - Origin > Wranglers and their coaches | 232 | 1,174 | null |
Section: Origin > Women. In 1873, Sarah Woodhead became the first woman to take, and to pass, the Mathematical Tripos. In 1880, Charlotte Angas Scott obtained special permission to take the Mathematical Tripos, as women were not normally allowed to sit for that exam. She came eighth on the Tripos of all students taking... | Wikipedia - Mathematical Tripos - Origin > Women | 255 | 1,241 | null |
Section: 1909 reforms. Reforms were implemented in 1909. The undergraduate course of mathematics at Cambridge still reflects a historically broad approach; and problem-solving skills are tested in examinations, though the setting of excessively taxing questions has been discouraged for many years. Example questions fro... | Wikipedia - Mathematical Tripos - 1909 reforms | 167 | 834 | null |
Section: The modern tripos. As of 2018, the Mathematical Tripos course comprises three undergraduate years (Parts IA, IB and II) which qualify a student for a BA degree, and an optional one year masters course (Part III) which qualifies a student for a Master of Mathematics (MMath) degree (with BA) if they are a Cambri... | Wikipedia - Mathematical Tripos - The modern tripos | 344 | 1,741 | null |
Article: Mathematics and Computing College. Mathematics and Computing Colleges were introduced in England in 2002 and Northern Ireland in 2006 as part of the Government's Specialist Schools programme which was designed to raise standards in secondary education. Specialist schools focus on their chosen specialism but mu... | Wikipedia - Mathematics and Computing College - Summary | 238 | 1,430 | null |
Article: Maths Mansion. Maths Mansion was a British educational television series for school Years 4 to 6 (nine to eleven year olds) that ran from 19 September 2001 to 26 March 2003. Produced by Channel 4 by Open Mind, It follows the adventures of "Bad Man" taking kids to his mansion, Maths Mansion. There, the kids lea... | Wikipedia - Maths Mansion - Summary | 243 | 1,094 | null |
Section: Characters. The main characters of Maths Mansion (other than the several kids in each episode) are Bad Man and Sad Man. Bad Man is the game show host who traps the kids and does not let them leave until they acquire Maths Cards that are earned in his game show. One of Bad Man's catchphrases, "No Leaving Withou... | Wikipedia - Maths Mansion - Characters | 241 | 1,085 | null |
Article: Maths school. A maths school is a type of specialist free school sixth form college in England which specialises in the study of mathematics. Each maths school is sponsored by a university and, frequently, also a nearby established sixth form college or multi-academy trust. All students in a maths school must ... | Wikipedia - Maths school - Summary | 177 | 951 | null |
Section: Features of maths schools. Maths free schools are for 16 to 19 year pupils who have a great aptitude for maths. As set out in the government’s Industrial Strategy, maths schools help to encourage highly skilled graduates in sectors that depend on science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) skills. The ai... | Wikipedia - Maths school - Features of maths schools | 343 | 1,845 | null |
Section: History. Maths schools were conceptualised by Dominic Cummings during his time as adviser to Education Secretary Michael Gove in 2010. They were largely inspired by the Russian institutions of the same name, established by renowned mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov. They were announced by the Cameron–Clegg coali... | Wikipedia - Maths school - History | 348 | 1,789 | null |
Section: Research and career. McCoy is interested in time series analysis and causal inference, with a particular focus on transport. Prior to joining LSE in October 2022, she was the Vice-Provost (Education and Student Experience) at Imperial College London, where she was appointed Professor of Statistics in 2014. McC... | Wikipedia - Emma McCoy - Research and career | 344 | 1,935 | null |
Section: Programmes. The MMP includes a range of complementary programmes: The NRICH website publishes free mathematics education enrichment material for ages 5 to 19. NRICH material focuses on problem-solving, building core mathematical reasoning and strategic thinking skills. In the academic year 2004/5 the website a... | Wikipedia - Millennium Mathematics Project - Programmes | 308 | 1,579 | null |
Section: History. The project was launched to address a perceived problem with numbers of students studying mathematics at university - that higher education participation had increased since 2001 but numbers studying mathematical sciences remained almost constant, and had particular focus on encouraging participation ... | Wikipedia - More Maths Grads - History | 234 | 1,345 | null |
Article: Murderous Maths. Murderous Maths is a series of British educational books by author Kjartan Poskitt. Most of the books in the series are illustrated by illustrator Philip Reeve, with the exception of "The Secret Life of Codes", which is illustrated by Ian Baker, "Awesome Arithmetricks" illustrated by Daniel Po... | Wikipedia - Murderous Maths - Summary | 175 | 853 | null |
Section: Development. The first two books of the series were originally part of "The Knowledge" (now "Totally") series, itself a spin-off of Horrible Histories. However, these books were eventually redesigned and they, as well as the rest of the titles in the series, now use the Murderous Maths banner. According to Pos... | Wikipedia - Murderous Maths - Development | 273 | 1,249 | null |
Guaranteed to Bend Your Brain (previously Murderous Maths) (1997), ISBN 0-439-01156-6 - (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, percentages, powers, tessellation, Roman numerals, the development of the "10" and the place system, shortcomings of calculators, prime numbers, time - how the year and day got divid... | Wikipedia - Murderous Maths - Titles | 350 | 1,358 | null |
(fractions, converting improper and mixed fractions, adding subtracting multiplying and dividing fractions, primes and prime factors, reducing fractions, highest common factor and lowest common denominators, Egyptian fractions, comparing fractions, cancelling out fractions, converting fractions to decimals, decimal pla... | Wikipedia - Murderous Maths - Titles | 173 | 795 | null |
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