Where would machine learning be without considerable contributions from excellent pure Mathematicians?
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Greg Stevenson
5 years ago
It's shaping for something, but it isn't excellence.
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Juan José Rué Perna
5 years ago
This is not a good policy
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Zoe
5 years ago
Grrrr
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Oscar Vernon
5 years ago
Please don’t make such a stupid decision. Mathematics is the ground on which all exact sciences stand.
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Fernando Orejas
5 years ago
This is an absolutely shortsighted view of research
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Ahmed Chohan
5 years ago
Don't let this happen
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Christopher Johnson
5 years ago
???
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Daniel Frank Johnston
5 years ago
This is a horrible idea.
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Salvati Sylvain
5 years ago
Pure math is underpinning many advances in other sciences like computer science, physics, chemistry, biology, engineering... Without good practitioners, scientific teaching together and many scientific advances are doomed.
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Medha
5 years ago
I have done pure maths and would like to do pure maths in future.
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Dimitris
5 years ago
Pure mathematics is the foundation of every science.
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Alexander Moravski
5 years ago
Pure mathematics is immeasurably important, sacrificing it in such a way cannot be justified.
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Daniel Clark
5 years ago
Pure mathematics is, and should always be a part of any university's Mathematical education, and the precision, nuances and beauty of the subject cannot be conveyed to the students, unless they have a teacher who is dedicated to and enthralled by their subject. This was an important factor and encouragement to me when I chose to pursue Mathematics to a higher level. It is therefore imperative, for the good of these students educations, that this opportunity and beauty is not snatched away from them, by replacing all of this, with a purely skeleton teaching staff.
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Alberto Speranzon
5 years ago
I am from an aerospace industry and I have been actively working with mathematicians in graph theory, algebraic topology and category theory. The complexity of the problems we face in engineering requires now more than ever the need to develop new theoretical foundations and enhancing the existing ones. The decision to stop what might appear "not applied or practical" is going to destroy exactly what the leadership wants to retain: without strong mathematical foundations in *all* mathematical subjects, AI, machine learning, data science, engineering, programming, etc. will become very quickly unable to be useful given the growth in complexity and scale of the systems we design, analyze and build.
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Richard Watson
5 years ago
It is a mistake to underestimate the importance of research in Mathematics for improving the quality of teaching.
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Prof Malcolm MacCallum
5 years ago
Seems especially inappropriate when some are housed in the Michael Atiyah Building.
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Iain Gordon
5 years ago
This proposal is very concerning. The Pure Maths Group in Leicester is strong, successful and a great part of the UK mathematical sciences community. The group attracts funding and recruits students well. The proposal doesn't reflect the intellectual reality of working in AI, etc: researchers know this, students know this, companies know this. So making the University essentially unique among the leading institutions, nationally and internationally, by having no active foundational mathematics research, this seems very risky. At a time with significantly increased government funding to mathematical sciences - including for foundational mathematics contributions to AI, etc - it's difficult to understand why one wouldn't build from strength in foundational mathematics out to AI, etc rather than to destroy it.
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Alice Ada Cecil
5 years ago
Might as well make a pool and fill it with concrete.
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Jonathan Crofts
5 years ago
Having received my MMath and PhD at Leicester this is extremely disappointing to hear. My career has focussed on applied mathematics but I would certainly have been a poorer lecturer and researcher if I had not been exposed to pure mathematics as an undergraduate student. I learnt mathematics under the tutelage of the pure mathematicians at Leicester and was then shown what and how to apply it by the applied ones. The idea that pure mathematics has nothing to contribute towards research areas such as AI and data science seems a very short term view in my opinion.
Where would machine learning be without considerable contributions from excellent pure Mathematicians?
It's shaping for something, but it isn't excellence.
This is not a good policy
Grrrr
Please don’t make such a stupid decision. Mathematics is the ground on which all exact sciences stand.
This is an absolutely shortsighted view of research
Don't let this happen
???
This is a horrible idea.
Pure math is underpinning many advances in other sciences like computer science, physics, chemistry, biology, engineering... Without good practitioners, scientific teaching together and many scientific advances are doomed.
I have done pure maths and would like to do pure maths in future.
Pure mathematics is the foundation of every science.
Pure mathematics is immeasurably important, sacrificing it in such a way cannot be justified.
Pure mathematics is, and should always be a part of any university's Mathematical education, and the precision, nuances and beauty of the subject cannot be conveyed to the students, unless they have a teacher who is dedicated to and enthralled by their subject. This was an important factor and encouragement to me when I chose to pursue Mathematics to a higher level. It is therefore imperative, for the good of these students educations, that this opportunity and beauty is not snatched away from them, by replacing all of this, with a purely skeleton teaching staff.
I am from an aerospace industry and I have been actively working with mathematicians in graph theory, algebraic topology and category theory. The complexity of the problems we face in engineering requires now more than ever the need to develop new theoretical foundations and enhancing the existing ones. The decision to stop what might appear "not applied or practical" is going to destroy exactly what the leadership wants to retain: without strong mathematical foundations in *all* mathematical subjects, AI, machine learning, data science, engineering, programming, etc. will become very quickly unable to be useful given the growth in complexity and scale of the systems we design, analyze and build.
It is a mistake to underestimate the importance of research in Mathematics for improving the quality of teaching.
Seems especially inappropriate when some are housed in the Michael Atiyah Building.
This proposal is very concerning. The Pure Maths Group in Leicester is strong, successful and a great part of the UK mathematical sciences community. The group attracts funding and recruits students well. The proposal doesn't reflect the intellectual reality of working in AI, etc: researchers know this, students know this, companies know this. So making the University essentially unique among the leading institutions, nationally and internationally, by having no active foundational mathematics research, this seems very risky. At a time with significantly increased government funding to mathematical sciences - including for foundational mathematics contributions to AI, etc - it's difficult to understand why one wouldn't build from strength in foundational mathematics out to AI, etc rather than to destroy it.
Might as well make a pool and fill it with concrete.
Having received my MMath and PhD at Leicester this is extremely disappointing to hear. My career has focussed on applied mathematics but I would certainly have been a poorer lecturer and researcher if I had not been exposed to pure mathematics as an undergraduate student. I learnt mathematics under the tutelage of the pure mathematicians at Leicester and was then shown what and how to apply it by the applied ones. The idea that pure mathematics has nothing to contribute towards research areas such as AI and data science seems a very short term view in my opinion.