Leicester’s crazy proposal to abolish Pure Math research lost then 20 top notch mathematicians at least half finding excellent positions elsewhere. Now they want to get rid of the remaining 8 replacing the entire department by three teachers. I suggest they call themselves a technical training college. Joseph
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Constanze Roitzheim
5 years ago
The proposal from Leicester is nonsensical. None of their goals work without pure mathematics research.
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Vladimir Hinich
5 years ago
University of Haifa
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David Blanc
5 years ago
Universities without a pure math department are not really universities!
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Professor Courtney R Gibbons
5 years ago
Pure math is needed for later applications -- just look at number theory and cryptography!
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Patricia Murray
5 years ago
The leadership at the University of Leicester need to be held to account for the damage they are inflicting.
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Cahir O'Kane
5 years ago
University of Cambridge
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Peter Armstrong
5 years ago
ridicuous to cut pure maths whist priortising quantitative methods and data analytics elsewhere
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Boaz Barak
5 years ago
Cambridge, MA, USA
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Duncan Turner
5 years ago
Knowledge is an inherent good in its own right
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Keith Brown
5 years ago
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The pure mathematics department at UoL was crucial to my education and inspired me to peruse a PhD in pure mathematics after my undergraduate degree. It is outrageous that the university would want to stifle the quality and breadth of academic research at the university.
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Farid Shahandeh
5 years ago
Stop eliminating pure math research at Leicester.
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Robert Insall
5 years ago
Canning pure maths? In 2021? That is a bizarre thing to try.
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Connor Gauntlett
5 years ago
This is outrageous and ill-informed. It is a decision that will harm both the faculty and the institution itself.
Leicester’s crazy proposal to abolish Pure Math research lost then 20 top notch mathematicians at least half finding excellent positions elsewhere. Now they want to get rid of the remaining 8 replacing the entire department by three teachers. I suggest they call themselves a technical training college. Joseph
The proposal from Leicester is nonsensical. None of their goals work without pure mathematics research.
University of Haifa
Universities without a pure math department are not really universities!
Pure math is needed for later applications -- just look at number theory and cryptography!
The leadership at the University of Leicester need to be held to account for the damage they are inflicting.
University of Cambridge
ridicuous to cut pure maths whist priortising quantitative methods and data analytics elsewhere
Cambridge, MA, USA
Knowledge is an inherent good in its own right
The pure mathematics department at UoL was crucial to my education and inspired me to peruse a PhD in pure mathematics after my undergraduate degree. It is outrageous that the university would want to stifle the quality and breadth of academic research at the university.
Stop eliminating pure math research at Leicester.
Canning pure maths? In 2021? That is a bizarre thing to try.
This is outrageous and ill-informed. It is a decision that will harm both the faculty and the institution itself.