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What is pure mathematics? What do pure mathematicians do? Why is pure mathematics important? These are questions I’m often confronted with when people discover I do pure mathematics. I always manage ...

While Pure Maths will pave the way for more study options at college and university, Maths Lit could lead to a better performance and improve the chances of achieving a Bachelors pass. Dr Alucia ...

As hard-pressed universities axe abstract study, the codebreaker’s great niece and top mathematicians are fighting back Almost exactly 80 years ago, British codebreakers made a crucial breakthrough.

In pure mathematics, very occasionally, breakthroughs arrive like bolts from the blue – the result of such inspired feats of reasoning and creativity that they seem to push the very bounds of ...

With the Matric results being published last week, a long-running debate has again reared its head. Is Maths Literacy all that worthwhile? After all, many are opposed to it because it’s “dumbing down ...

In pure mathematics, ChatGPT-5.4 was credited with aiding the solution of a notoriously difficult Erdős problem, a feat that had eluded experts for decades. In applied mathematics, University of ...