There is no applied science without fundamental science. One of the main goals of universities should support long term research.
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Vincent Lemaître
5 years ago
Shaping for decadence...
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chris ringeous
5 years ago
I think this is a very good idea... but for terminating Leicester University!
We should all thanks the mentally deficient managers of Leicester U. for allowing all the other universities to get their brain. Go on!! Again!
Please, next time close the department of Fundamental Physics, and we're good!
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Jan Govaerts
5 years ago
Without fundamental research in pure mathematics, our present-day technologies simply wouldn't exist, beginning with AI and the like. "The Book of Nature is written in the language of mathematics".
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Emeric Gioan
5 years ago
I am a CNRS researcher in mathematics affiliated to a french computer science lab. All levels of research, from the most abstract ones in pure maths to the most applied one in technics, form a chain of interactions, with different aims sights and times, but with a global efficiency as such a chain. There would be no smartphone today if mathematicians had stopped formalizing and deepening algebra and analysis several decades ago. And there will not be a proper and efficient development of artifical intelligence and data science in the future if theoretical research is restricted today to what seems to be "directly linked" with it today, which is a counterproductive short-term and narrowed viewpoint. Advances in these domains will necessarily also come from indirect applications of theoretical research at different levels of abstraction, or from different subjects that will be discovered later to be linked to these domains... Various forms of pure mathematics will obviously be used and required in some ways in the future development of AI, data science, and all other applied domains.
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Jon
5 years ago
I am the director of a Data Science program, and the idea that this sort of work warrants eliminating a pure mathematics program is patently ridiculous. Data Science by no means promises the depth of research impact of pure mathematics, especially in the long run. Please reconsider this ludicrous plan
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Jan de Gier
5 years ago
Capitalising on applications of mathematics and statistics but not acknowledging their value nor reinvesting in imagining the future is poor management and not what universities are predicated on
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Aleks Owczarek
5 years ago
Removing a fundamental discipline such as mathematics calls into question the veracity of the claim that the University of Leicester continues to be a University
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Mauro Garcia
5 years ago
a quien se le ocurrió decir un disparate tan tremendo?
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Davide Barbieri
5 years ago
A University without Mathematics is like concrete without cement, it's like pizza without flour, it's like a plan without an idea.
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Ildefonso Castro
5 years ago
Obviously, Mathematics is not redundant
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Poteaux Adrien
5 years ago
This is madness...
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Toby Cubitt
5 years ago
I publish highly theoretical, mathematical, foundational academic work, whilst also being co-founder of a spinout company. The most innovative, transformative applications don't come from narrowly following the latest industry trends, but from properly supporting the abstract, curiosity-driven research from which those future innovations spring. Typically unanticipated and in a completely unexpected direction.
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Tomasz Przebinda
5 years ago
Wake up !!
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Boris Apanasov
5 years ago
This is not "shaping for excellence". This is the shame for the University of Leicester. World Science community should refuse to deal with such a shameful university after that.
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Ryan Gueli
5 years ago
Save pure math
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Hai Nguyen
5 years ago
Pure mathematics forms the foundation for all sciences.
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Debord
5 years ago
What would science be today without yesterday's mathematics?
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Victor Okhonine
5 years ago
My personal prediction: Computer mathematics will produce mountains of numbers and graphs. The only problem is that it will have nothing to do with reality.
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Eugenio Hernández Rodriguez
5 years ago
Understanding pure mathematics is basis to all sciences
There is no applied science without fundamental science. One of the main goals of universities should support long term research.
Shaping for decadence...
I think this is a very good idea... but for terminating Leicester University! We should all thanks the mentally deficient managers of Leicester U. for allowing all the other universities to get their brain. Go on!! Again! Please, next time close the department of Fundamental Physics, and we're good!
Without fundamental research in pure mathematics, our present-day technologies simply wouldn't exist, beginning with AI and the like. "The Book of Nature is written in the language of mathematics".
I am a CNRS researcher in mathematics affiliated to a french computer science lab. All levels of research, from the most abstract ones in pure maths to the most applied one in technics, form a chain of interactions, with different aims sights and times, but with a global efficiency as such a chain. There would be no smartphone today if mathematicians had stopped formalizing and deepening algebra and analysis several decades ago. And there will not be a proper and efficient development of artifical intelligence and data science in the future if theoretical research is restricted today to what seems to be "directly linked" with it today, which is a counterproductive short-term and narrowed viewpoint. Advances in these domains will necessarily also come from indirect applications of theoretical research at different levels of abstraction, or from different subjects that will be discovered later to be linked to these domains... Various forms of pure mathematics will obviously be used and required in some ways in the future development of AI, data science, and all other applied domains.
I am the director of a Data Science program, and the idea that this sort of work warrants eliminating a pure mathematics program is patently ridiculous. Data Science by no means promises the depth of research impact of pure mathematics, especially in the long run. Please reconsider this ludicrous plan
Capitalising on applications of mathematics and statistics but not acknowledging their value nor reinvesting in imagining the future is poor management and not what universities are predicated on
Removing a fundamental discipline such as mathematics calls into question the veracity of the claim that the University of Leicester continues to be a University
a quien se le ocurrió decir un disparate tan tremendo?
A University without Mathematics is like concrete without cement, it's like pizza without flour, it's like a plan without an idea.
Obviously, Mathematics is not redundant
This is madness...
I publish highly theoretical, mathematical, foundational academic work, whilst also being co-founder of a spinout company. The most innovative, transformative applications don't come from narrowly following the latest industry trends, but from properly supporting the abstract, curiosity-driven research from which those future innovations spring. Typically unanticipated and in a completely unexpected direction.
Wake up !!
This is not "shaping for excellence". This is the shame for the University of Leicester. World Science community should refuse to deal with such a shameful university after that.
Save pure math
Pure mathematics forms the foundation for all sciences.
What would science be today without yesterday's mathematics?
My personal prediction: Computer mathematics will produce mountains of numbers and graphs. The only problem is that it will have nothing to do with reality.
Understanding pure mathematics is basis to all sciences