Mathematics is not redundant

This is a poor decision and everyone would suffer academically as a result of cutting pure mathematics

Pure math is the origin

While I understand the ideas represented, it is not fair to those students already at the university who want to study pure mathematics

Excuse my language, but what the

My background is pure mathematics, but I have worked in applied Machine Learning and AI for 14 years. In this time, the type of models used has changed drastically. Without a pure mathematics education, I would have found it much harder to adapt.

you are making a big mistake. Mathematics is a fundamental course!

The idea to get rid of mathematics to have funds for AI, data science, etc. is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. All of them stand and build on mathematics and statistics. It is like a wish to extend a building while removing its foundations. Spectacular collapse is the only possible effect.

Don't fire these people?

Pure mathematics underpins the research in AI, computational modelling, digitalisation and data science. These topics will implode without a solid foundation.

An unacceptable reason and move.

Spectacularly ignorant move

Mathematics is the essence of all things, and hence cannot be eradicated from science and technology.

Some of the best AI researchers started their career with a PhD in maths - not anymore in Leicester :-(

There is no way forward to science and technology without pure mathematics.

Incredibly short-sighted.

Pure mathematics was fundamental to General Relativity. It was fundamental to modern quantum physics. It was fundamental to cryptography. It was fundamental to foundational computer science. Saying pure mathematics is redundant is like saying language is redundant because it, by itself, doesn’t appear to achieve anything. But we don’t research because we know what we want; we research because we don’t know what we need yet

Dear VC and Board members: this will be a serious blow to the reputation of your university and deprive you of good teachers and eventually of good students. I would strongly discourage my students and colleagues to study or work at a university that disregards millenia of collective effort of the brightest human minds in such an unacceptable and unethical way! Sincerely, Aris Pagourtzis, Professor of Theoretical Computer Science, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

"Ceasing research in Pure Mathematics" will result in DECLINE of "a future research identity in AI, computational modelling, digitalisation and data science" not the other way round as they hope.

I believe that mathematics, in the sense of mathematical reasoning and thinking, with its effiency to formulate, classify and solve problems, can only be taught by a faculty rooted in mathematical research that lives up to the standards of our discipline (rigorous proofs published in journals). In my opinion, also students in "AI, computational modelling, digitalisation and data science" should have the chance to acquire such mathematical skills.

I am flabbergasted! I do hope reason will prevail. AI, computational modelling, data science and digitalisation are indubitable important and timely _application_ areas, but all applications have to be based on a strong multidisciplinary science base, see David Alvargonzález: "Multidisciplinarity, Interdisciplinarity, Transdisciplinarity, and the Sciences", International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 387-403, December 2011.