The Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

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The Mathematical Institute, on Banbury Road in Oxford.
The Mathematical Institute, on Banbury Road in Oxford.

The Mathematical Institute is the mathematics department at the University of Oxford, England. It forms one of the eight departments of the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division in the University.

The Institute is located in a building built in 1966 at the southern end of Banbury Road in central Oxford[1] The building of the institute was originally proposed by G.H. Hardy at least 30 years earlier[2]. In 1934 Hardy was allocated six rooms in the new extension to the Radcliffe Science Library[3]. The current building was desined by University surveyors office[3].

The Mathematical Institute includes both pure and applied mathematics (statistics is a separate department) and is one of the largest and most respected mathematics departments in the UK.[4]. The institute houses a community of 120 mathematicians from postgraduate students to professors.[5].

Oxford has three "statutory chairs" in pure mathematics. The Waynflete Professorship of Pure Mathematics held by D G Quillen, a Fields medallist, the Wallis Professorship is held by Professor T J Lyons while the Savillian Professorship held by Nigel Hitchin, FRS. In applied mathematics there are two statutory chairs : the Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy is held by John M. Ball, FRS, and the Rouse Ball chair held by P Candelas. Roger Penrose is a prominent emeritus member of the Institute.

Plans are underway for the Institute to move to new purpose designed premises on the site of the Radcliffe Infirmary on Walton Street.[6]

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  1. ^ Mathematical Institute, headington.org [1]
  2. ^ The British Society for the History of Mathematics Gazetteer [2]
  3. ^ a b Trevor Henry Aston, The History of the University of Oxford, 1984,ISBN 0198229747
  4. ^ Comparing top mathematics departments in universities in the UK 2008, [3]
  5. ^ Mathematical Institute, Oxford University
  6. ^ MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTE DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE Report January 2005, [4]
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