If this goes forward, the other parts of maths will be financially dead in the water in a few years. Some of the governing accountants will know this. Looks like maths is played here and the actual targets are in other departments.
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Ilia Zlotnikov
5 years ago
I am against destroying mathematics anywhere in the world.
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Alessio Corti
5 years ago
Leicester Pure Mathematics is a first rate department. The decision to close it seems spectacularly short-sighted.
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Jonathan Rosenberg
5 years ago
Cutting pure mathematics to focus on applied mathematics is incredibly short-sighted. Most of the major developments in applied mathematics and data science have grown out of advances in pure mathematics.
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Philip L Bowers
5 years ago
While they are at it, why not shut down other useless programs like theoretical physics, philosophy, anything having to do with art or music, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, and history.
BTW what AI researcher or data scientist would want to be known as a professor at a "university" that has jettisoned its pure maths? At FSU much of this sort of research is done by pure mathematicians.
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Anonymous
5 years ago
It's a shame already that we have to sign to prove this. Mathematics is essential.
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Ben Powell
5 years ago
Substantial advances in stats, machine learning and signal processing require sophisticated and solid mathematical foundations.
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Butstraen
5 years ago
Maths are key
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Teimuraz Aliashvili
5 years ago
The development of humanity is unimaginable without pure mathematics.
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Dr Evgeni Nikoaev
5 years ago
Plato: "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter"
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Zhaonan Dong
5 years ago
I used to study and work in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Leicester from 2011 to 2018. This is the second time the Executive Board tried to (partially) ease the Department of Mathematics by saying pure maths are useless... This is definitely a shame! I can not imagine any reasonable students want to go to a university without pure maths to study the AI, computational modelling, digitalisation and data science!
If the pure maths are eased because "somebody" says it is "useless", it shows that the university is no longer universal. The research-oriented university becomes the "Degree Certificate-oriented factory". This is the worst policy ever in the past 100 years of the University of Leicester.
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Gino Favero
5 years ago
A common disbelief causes damage once again. Unless the VC aims at making Leicester a third-rate University: in that case the decision is perfect.
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Edward Fisher
5 years ago
This seems a ludicrous decision.
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Karen Strung
5 years ago
A maths department is incomplete without research in pure mathematics.
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Robert Michael Porter
5 years ago
It is not easy to develop a tradition in research in pure mathematics. For a university to let it go is like shooting itself in the foot.
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Anonymous
5 years ago
Pure Mathematics are the basis and make possible the important advances in science and computer science. Please, consider our petition
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Aldo Scimone
5 years ago
Maths, always Maths, strongly Math!
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Laurent Bruneau
5 years ago
Such a shame.
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Fabio Gori
5 years ago
There are many branches of mathematics that looked useless for decades till they became fundamental for applications
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Anonymous
5 years ago
Kill the foundations to support the latest buzzwords. (And I say that as an AI researcher.) Very bad idea, but plenty of people have already told you that haven't they?
If this goes forward, the other parts of maths will be financially dead in the water in a few years. Some of the governing accountants will know this. Looks like maths is played here and the actual targets are in other departments.
I am against destroying mathematics anywhere in the world.
Leicester Pure Mathematics is a first rate department. The decision to close it seems spectacularly short-sighted.
Cutting pure mathematics to focus on applied mathematics is incredibly short-sighted. Most of the major developments in applied mathematics and data science have grown out of advances in pure mathematics.
While they are at it, why not shut down other useless programs like theoretical physics, philosophy, anything having to do with art or music, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, and history. BTW what AI researcher or data scientist would want to be known as a professor at a "university" that has jettisoned its pure maths? At FSU much of this sort of research is done by pure mathematicians.
It's a shame already that we have to sign to prove this. Mathematics is essential.
Substantial advances in stats, machine learning and signal processing require sophisticated and solid mathematical foundations.
Maths are key
The development of humanity is unimaginable without pure mathematics.
Plato: "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter"
I used to study and work in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Leicester from 2011 to 2018. This is the second time the Executive Board tried to (partially) ease the Department of Mathematics by saying pure maths are useless... This is definitely a shame! I can not imagine any reasonable students want to go to a university without pure maths to study the AI, computational modelling, digitalisation and data science! If the pure maths are eased because "somebody" says it is "useless", it shows that the university is no longer universal. The research-oriented university becomes the "Degree Certificate-oriented factory". This is the worst policy ever in the past 100 years of the University of Leicester.
A common disbelief causes damage once again. Unless the VC aims at making Leicester a third-rate University: in that case the decision is perfect.
This seems a ludicrous decision.
A maths department is incomplete without research in pure mathematics.
It is not easy to develop a tradition in research in pure mathematics. For a university to let it go is like shooting itself in the foot.
Pure Mathematics are the basis and make possible the important advances in science and computer science. Please, consider our petition
Maths, always Maths, strongly Math!
Such a shame.
There are many branches of mathematics that looked useless for decades till they became fundamental for applications
Kill the foundations to support the latest buzzwords. (And I say that as an AI researcher.) Very bad idea, but plenty of people have already told you that haven't they?