The number of A-level Mathematics entries across the UK is up 3.3% on last year, with 95,244 students sitting the exam.
Figures released today by the Joint Council for Qualifications also show that
The founder of the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) Landon T. Clay passed away on July 29. Clay was a generous benefactor to mathematics and founded CMI in 1998 with his wife, Lavinia D. Clay The primary objective of CMI is to ‘encourage the increase and dissemination of mathematical knowledge’.
Clay was not himself a mathematician, having graduated from Harvard with a degree in English. His career as a successful businessman and in finance and science-based venture capital funding allowed him to devote his time and energy to philanthropic causes
The London Mathematical Society welcomes the report, published today, of Professor Sir Adrian Smith’s review of post-16 mathematics. As part of the mathematics community, we welcome its recognition of the importance of mathematics, and its analysis of the need to improve take-up and achievement in 16-18 mathematics. The report makes significant recommendations for strengthening the provision of a variety of post-16 mathematics pathways, so that within a decade all 16-18 students should have access to appropriately rewarding and challenging routes of study.
We are delighted to announce that the Councils of the IMA and LMS have awarded the 2017 David Crighton Medal to Professor I. David Abrahams, for his outstanding service to both mathematics and the mathematical community.
David developed the technically demanding Wiener-Hopf techniques for applications in real problems, and created a vibrant group working on waves in Manchester. He has received the Royal Society’s Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship and its Wolfson Research Merit Award.
It is with great sadness that the London Mathematical Society (LMS) has learned of the death of Fields Medal winner Maryam Mirzakhani at the age of 40. In 2014 Mirzakhani became the first woman to receive a Fields Medal in its nearly 80-year history. She received the award for her ‘outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces’. In essence, for her contributions to the fields of topology, geometry, and dynamical systems.
The slates for the 2017 LMS elections to Council and Nominating Commitee, as selected by Nominating Committee, are now available.
As in previous years, members are invited to make direct nominations for both Council and Nominating Committee.
The ballot will open in autumn 2017 and the results will be announced at the LMS Annual General Meeting in November.
See full details here.
The winners of the 2017 LMS Prizes were announced at the Society meeting in London on Friday 30th June 2017. The Society extends its congratulations to these winners.
PROFESSOR ALEX WILKIE FRS, of the UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, is awarded the PÓLYA PRIZE for his profound contributions to model theory and to its connections with real analytic geometry.
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) extends its warmest congratulations to LMS member Professor Alison Etheridge FRS, who has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours
Professor Etheridge is Professor of Probability at the University of Oxford where she holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics and a Fellowship at Magdalen College. She is also Associate Head of the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS) Division. Professor Etheridge was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015.
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) congratulates Sir Andrew Wiles KBE FRS on his award of the Royal Society Copley Medal, the world's oldest scientific prize. He receives the award for proving Fermat’s Last Theorem and joins a list of winners including Charles Darwin, Humphrey Davy and Albert Einstein. Sir Andrew was also awarded the Abel Prize in 2016 and was an LMS Junior Whitehead Prize winner in 1988.
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) congratulates LMS Honorary Member Claire Voisin, Professor and Chair in Algebraic Geometry, Collège de France, who is the joint winner of the 2017 Shaw Prize in the Mathematical Sciences. Professor Voisin shares the Prize with János Kollár, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University.