In the final instalment of the mini-series, Norman Biggs gives us a brief history of mathematics at LSE. Norman is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Mathematics at LSE and you can find out more about Norman on his website.
Previous instalments of this brief history have described how LSE recruited a group of mathematicians in 1966 and set up a small Department […]
In a new mini-series, Norman Biggs gives us a brief history of mathematics at LSE. Norman is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Mathematics at LSE and is also on Twitter: @norman_biggs
At the start of the academic year 1988-89 the Sub-Department of Mathematics had 6½ members. In addition to the newly-appointed professor, Norman Biggs, there were three long-standing members: Elizabeth Boardman (appointed […]
In a new mini-series, Norman Biggs gives us a brief history of mathematics at LSE. Norman is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Mathematics at LSE and is also on Twitter: @norman_biggs
When LSE was founded in 1895, Mathematics was not one of the foundation subjects. However, from the very start, Statistics was regarded as an important tool for […]
In this new series of blogs, we find out more about the staff here in the Department of Mathematics, what their research interests are and their favourite part of being at LSE.
For this post we chat with Dr Georg Loho, who joined us at the start of February 2019. He is working here as a Research Officer on the ERC ScaleOpt: Scaling […]
Bernhard von Stengel, a Professor in LSE’s Department of Mathematics, uses his game theory knowledge to look into referendums, and considers how a referendum with more than two choices could be run…
Bernhard teaches discrete mathematics, optimisation and game theory at LSE. He is also on Twitter – @bvonstengel
If you favour a second referendum on Brexit (a prospect that is […]
In this new series of blogs, we find out more about the academics here in the Department of Mathematics, what their research interests are and their favourite part of being at LSE.
For this post we chat with Dr Tugkan Batu, who is the Departmental Tutor for first year students on our undergraduate programmes.
(1) How long have you been here at LSE?
I have been at LSE […]
In this new series of blogs, we find out more about the academics here in the Department of Mathematics, what their research interests are and their favourite part of being at LSE.
For this post we chat with Dr Johannes Ruf, who is an Associate Professor in the Department and a Programme Director for our MSc in Financial Mathematics.
(1) How long have you been here […]
In this new series of blogs, we find out more about the academics here in the Department of Mathematics, what their research interests are and their favourite part of being at LSE.
For this post we chat with Dr Andrew Lewis-Pye, who is an Associate Professor in the Department and launched the Maths@LSE blog in 2015.
(1) How long have you been here at LSE?
I came […]
Two of our final year undergraduate students, Xenia Dimitrakopoulou (BSc Mathematics with Economics) and Justin Tan (BSc Mathematics and Economics), give Maths@LSE an insight into the LMS Summer School they attended in July.
The London Mathematical Society organises undergraduate summer schools every summer, consisting of a two-week course held in a UK university. The summer school consists of short lecture courses […]
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