Pure Mathematics is an essential part of research, innovations and discoveries in countless fields of activity. Essentially it's inclusion frees the mind of obsessive focus on a narrow target.
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Jane Pitts-Tucker
5 years ago
Freedom of research is essential for progress.
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Leo Liberti
5 years ago
The "visibility" of AI and data science is mostly buzzword-based, amplified by tech firms such as IBM which profit from them. Many technical directors in the service industry came to me complaining that ML does not hold the promise of the associated mediatic communication. What will your department look like when the buzzword craze blows over, if you remove mathematics and FOCS? If budget obliges, it would be much smarter to resize rather than remove these departments.
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Konstantin Avrachenkov
5 years ago
I am shocked.
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Michel Koskas
5 years ago
Theoretical maths are the basis of all encryptions systems in the world.
Theoretical maths ARE useful.
What a pityful lack of academical culture from this political direction.
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Jan Hendrik Schröer
5 years ago
The idea to stop Pure Maths Research at Leicester falls into the same category as Brexit: Ignorant, short sighted and stupid.
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IOANNIS GEORGIOU
5 years ago
We need basic research in pure math that supports data scince
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Kasturi Barkataki
5 years ago
Pure mathematics is one of the fundamental pillars of human advancement. It is foolish to cut it down. The whole education-research system will crumble!
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Jesus Gonzalo
5 years ago
Universidad Autonoma Madrid,
Mathematics Department
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Jonny Cottrell
5 years ago
This plan is vicious. And even on its own vicious terms, it's bound to backfire: without Pure Mathematics, the University of Leicester will not be considered a serious institution for research in any area of Mathematics.
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SC Steenkamp
5 years ago
I am signing this petition in solidarity with the students and staff at Leicester university. Were it not for that then I'd not mind Leicester trying their silly plan and learning the hard way why pure mathematical “foundations” are “fundamental” to mathematics as a whole, as well as all the natural sciences, engineering, and computer science.
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Monroe Eskew
5 years ago
Math is fundamental!
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Jamie Radcliffe
5 years ago
This is simultaneously a ridiculous and barbaric plan.
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DA Edwards
5 years ago
Proposal to cease pure maths. research is short-sighted and destructive of value of the whole maths./computing setup.
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Daniel Bakkelund
5 years ago
The undersigned would strongly request that the University of Leicester reconsiders the decision to cease research in Pure Mathematics.
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Rajiv Ranjan
5 years ago
Formal methods and mathematics are core to applied research in computer science (AI, IoT). These academics and researchers are very much needed by UK Universities.
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Yan Fyodorov
5 years ago
Shame to those aiming to close the research positions in Pure Math. Foundational things must be promoted: not only they underpin applications, they are our common cultural heritage.
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François Nebout
5 years ago
Ce qui est inutile sur le moment peut se révéler; avec le temps, d'une extraordinaire fécondité.
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Charles Batty
5 years ago
How short-sighted people can be
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Alex
5 years ago
Mathematics is fundamental science, I don't understand how they want to research AI without pure mathematics...
Pure Mathematics is an essential part of research, innovations and discoveries in countless fields of activity. Essentially it's inclusion frees the mind of obsessive focus on a narrow target.
Freedom of research is essential for progress.
The "visibility" of AI and data science is mostly buzzword-based, amplified by tech firms such as IBM which profit from them. Many technical directors in the service industry came to me complaining that ML does not hold the promise of the associated mediatic communication. What will your department look like when the buzzword craze blows over, if you remove mathematics and FOCS? If budget obliges, it would be much smarter to resize rather than remove these departments.
I am shocked.
Theoretical maths are the basis of all encryptions systems in the world. Theoretical maths ARE useful. What a pityful lack of academical culture from this political direction.
The idea to stop Pure Maths Research at Leicester falls into the same category as Brexit: Ignorant, short sighted and stupid.
We need basic research in pure math that supports data scince
Pure mathematics is one of the fundamental pillars of human advancement. It is foolish to cut it down. The whole education-research system will crumble!
Universidad Autonoma Madrid, Mathematics Department
This plan is vicious. And even on its own vicious terms, it's bound to backfire: without Pure Mathematics, the University of Leicester will not be considered a serious institution for research in any area of Mathematics.
I am signing this petition in solidarity with the students and staff at Leicester university. Were it not for that then I'd not mind Leicester trying their silly plan and learning the hard way why pure mathematical “foundations” are “fundamental” to mathematics as a whole, as well as all the natural sciences, engineering, and computer science.
Math is fundamental!
This is simultaneously a ridiculous and barbaric plan.
Proposal to cease pure maths. research is short-sighted and destructive of value of the whole maths./computing setup.
The undersigned would strongly request that the University of Leicester reconsiders the decision to cease research in Pure Mathematics.
Formal methods and mathematics are core to applied research in computer science (AI, IoT). These academics and researchers are very much needed by UK Universities.
Shame to those aiming to close the research positions in Pure Math. Foundational things must be promoted: not only they underpin applications, they are our common cultural heritage.
Ce qui est inutile sur le moment peut se révéler; avec le temps, d'une extraordinaire fécondité.
How short-sighted people can be
Mathematics is fundamental science, I don't understand how they want to research AI without pure mathematics...