Edinburgh Maths/Art exhibition goes live

published Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Mathematician Julia Collins and artist Madeleine Shepherd have created a maths/art exhibition called The Mathematician's Shirts in which formal shirts have been transformed into sculptures embodying mathematical principles.

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Financial mathematics prizes

published Tuesday, 10 January 2012

At a careers event in November, two students received prizes for their work in financial mathematics.

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Legion d'honneur for Sir Michael Atiyah

published Wednesday, 14 December 2011

Congratulations to Sir Michael Atiyah, an Honorary Professor in the School, on his appointment as Grand Officier of the French Legion d'honneur.

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Breakthrough in matrix multiplication

published Monday, 12 December 2011

Andrew Stothers, a Mathematics PhD graduate from the University of Edinburgh, is being praised for finding a fundamental breakthrough in matrix multiplication.

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Chancellor’s Fellowship in Statistics

published Thursday, 8 December 2011

Applications are invited for this prestigious Fellowship.

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3 Lectureships in Mathematics

published Thursday, 8 December 2011

Applications are invited for three lectureships in Mathematics. Deadline 23^rd January 2012.

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University hosts Senior Maths Challenge

published Monday, 28 November 2011

The University of Edinburgh hosted the regional final of the UKMT Senior Team Maths Challenge, with the winning team going on to compete in the national final in London.

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Napier Medal and G.B. Gadgil Prize

published Thursday, 27 October 2011

On 14th October 2011, the School was delighted to be able to host four members of the Gadgil family; Mr. B.B. Gadgil, Mr. Anand Gadgil, Dr. Nitin Telang and Dr.

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Edinburgh mathematics undergraduate on the arXiv

published Friday, 14 October 2011

Congratulations to Nick Edelen, a 4th year mathematics undergraduate, who has posted a paper A conservation approach to helicoidal surfaces of constant mean curvature in R^3, S^3 and H^3 on the arXiv, the main mathematics repository for research papers.  The paper is th

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Forensic statistics in the Guardian

published Monday, 3 October 2011

Colin Aitken, professor of forensic statistics, speaks in the Guardian about why he hopes the Appeal Court will reconsider a recent ruling on the use of Bayesian statistics in court.

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