I personally know some of the faculty at Leicester and am aware of their high quality research. My full support to them.
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David Suda
5 years ago
Applied mathematics is all good, but without the pure mathematicians there can be no innovation. This is a very short sighted move.
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Yurij Holovatch
5 years ago
If universities stop to support fundamental science, who will do this and what will become universities? I support the Leicester group and academic research.
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Nicholas Page
5 years ago
A University which is serious about attracting quality students (both Undergraduate and Postgraduate) to its courses in any mathematical discipline needs to sustain research (and teaching by staff who are research active) in Pure Mathematics.
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Hipolito Treffinger
5 years ago
I worked in Leicester until last August, which allowed to see first hand the quality of the mathematicians working in the department and the high reputation that the University has created for itself in the community through the years. It is deeply sad to see how this short sighted decision is destroying all of it at once. My full support to my former colleagues and friends in this difficult times.
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Olesya Mryglod
5 years ago
Voting for fundamental science!
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Duncan Turner
5 years ago
Pure maths is not abstract nonsense, it is a search for abstract truth
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Allan Lo
5 years ago
Pure mathematics is not redundant! It is only redundant in the eyes of the people, who is extremely short sighted and only see immediate profits.
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Anonymous
5 years ago
A truly short-sighted decision, I hope it is quickly reversed.
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Ross Duncan
5 years ago
The strength of the pure maths research at Leicester contributes to many other more applied disciplines, such as my own, computer science. For this reason, I have recommended Leicester as a destination for graduate students and early career researchers in the past. The loss of pure maths will make this unlikely in future. It is a terrible waste to destroy a department with genuine and unique strengths in order to jump the same bandwagon as everyone else in the country. Members of this department have been instrumental in organising and building research networks nationally and internationally so their loss will be keenly felt, and the vandalism of the vice-chancellor not quickly forgotten.
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Anonymous
5 years ago
I fear that this move is missing the point of mathematics. You want AI, modelling, data science - fine. But how are students expected to *understand* these without an understanding of pure maths? It's honestly like trying to build a house straight onto grass and dirt with no foundations. What are universities if not places for developing in-depth understanding?
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Bertrand BERCHE
5 years ago
In support to Leicester group and academic research in all areas of human knowledge.
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Ruben Sanchez-Garcia
5 years ago
This decision seems to be based on an oversimplification and misunderstanding of the pure/applied science divide. I would encourage the VC and management team to reconsider this ill-advised decision.
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Yuan Yao
5 years ago
This is incredibly short sighted. Many foundational ideas in AI and modelling draws heavily from pure math. To cut pure math to fund AI is just screaming whoever in charge there are idiots.
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Zhengqing He
5 years ago
This world is too crazy
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David Bradley-Williams
5 years ago
An institution without a wide intellectual foundation will find it does not have a lasting future as a serious university. It will surely find it can, at best, obtain a research identity for recently obsolete computational technologies. Pure mathematics in all its forms is one of the essential foundations of science and technology. Losing such an extremely reputable and successful research group as in Leicester would be an irreversible mistake.
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Andrew Thomason
5 years ago
There is no AI without mathematics. Ask Google.
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Jens Christian Claussen
5 years ago
Leicester to become famous in self-destruction and further derailing of its scientific standing: uni.versi.tas without maths, philosophy and humanities? STEM without M? Impact without content? This can only open misfortune precedents. If that is what the current local leaders / administrators have learnt and aspired in their career (at Cambridge and Bristol?), then (after a broad conversion to polytechnics) the UK university landscape in 2121 should consist of Oxford only?
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Amy Spencer
5 years ago
Very sad as a mathematician and an alumna of Leicester.
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Robert Weston
5 years ago
Pure mathematics is the bedrock of any successful research-focussed mathematics department. To remove it will significantly damage the reputation of the University of Leicester.
I personally know some of the faculty at Leicester and am aware of their high quality research. My full support to them.
Applied mathematics is all good, but without the pure mathematicians there can be no innovation. This is a very short sighted move.
If universities stop to support fundamental science, who will do this and what will become universities? I support the Leicester group and academic research.
A University which is serious about attracting quality students (both Undergraduate and Postgraduate) to its courses in any mathematical discipline needs to sustain research (and teaching by staff who are research active) in Pure Mathematics.
I worked in Leicester until last August, which allowed to see first hand the quality of the mathematicians working in the department and the high reputation that the University has created for itself in the community through the years. It is deeply sad to see how this short sighted decision is destroying all of it at once. My full support to my former colleagues and friends in this difficult times.
Voting for fundamental science!
Pure maths is not abstract nonsense, it is a search for abstract truth
Pure mathematics is not redundant! It is only redundant in the eyes of the people, who is extremely short sighted and only see immediate profits.
A truly short-sighted decision, I hope it is quickly reversed.
The strength of the pure maths research at Leicester contributes to many other more applied disciplines, such as my own, computer science. For this reason, I have recommended Leicester as a destination for graduate students and early career researchers in the past. The loss of pure maths will make this unlikely in future. It is a terrible waste to destroy a department with genuine and unique strengths in order to jump the same bandwagon as everyone else in the country. Members of this department have been instrumental in organising and building research networks nationally and internationally so their loss will be keenly felt, and the vandalism of the vice-chancellor not quickly forgotten.
I fear that this move is missing the point of mathematics. You want AI, modelling, data science - fine. But how are students expected to *understand* these without an understanding of pure maths? It's honestly like trying to build a house straight onto grass and dirt with no foundations. What are universities if not places for developing in-depth understanding?
In support to Leicester group and academic research in all areas of human knowledge.
This decision seems to be based on an oversimplification and misunderstanding of the pure/applied science divide. I would encourage the VC and management team to reconsider this ill-advised decision.
This is incredibly short sighted. Many foundational ideas in AI and modelling draws heavily from pure math. To cut pure math to fund AI is just screaming whoever in charge there are idiots.
This world is too crazy
An institution without a wide intellectual foundation will find it does not have a lasting future as a serious university. It will surely find it can, at best, obtain a research identity for recently obsolete computational technologies. Pure mathematics in all its forms is one of the essential foundations of science and technology. Losing such an extremely reputable and successful research group as in Leicester would be an irreversible mistake.
There is no AI without mathematics. Ask Google.
Leicester to become famous in self-destruction and further derailing of its scientific standing: uni.versi.tas without maths, philosophy and humanities? STEM without M? Impact without content? This can only open misfortune precedents. If that is what the current local leaders / administrators have learnt and aspired in their career (at Cambridge and Bristol?), then (after a broad conversion to polytechnics) the UK university landscape in 2121 should consist of Oxford only?
Very sad as a mathematician and an alumna of Leicester.
Pure mathematics is the bedrock of any successful research-focussed mathematics department. To remove it will significantly damage the reputation of the University of Leicester.