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FASTFACT:
Eratosthenes accurately measured the size of the Earth using mathematics in the third century BC.

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Mathematics provides the structure for creative thought

Welcome to the School of Mathematics

We are one of the largest and most prestigious mathematics departments in the UK, with an international reputation for our teaching and research excellence.

We cover the areas of applied and pure mathematics, as well as statistics and financial mathematics where we have close teaching and research links with Leeds University Business School.

We have 74 academic and academic-related staff, in excess of 70 postgraduate students and 17 postdoctoral fellows.

Positions available

Lecturer in Pure Mathematics, Grade 7/8
Reference: MAPMA0055 at jobs.leeds.ac.uk

Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher in Mathematical Immunology
Research: Fixed term 36 months; 2 posts available
Reference: MAPMA0052 at jobs.leeds.ac.uk

School of Mathematics: EPSRC CASE Bloom Scholarship

Forthcoming seminars

Thu 23rd May, 2013
Sanju Velani
Metric Diophantine approximation: the Lebesgue and Hausdorff theories

Please see our seminars page for more details.

Forthcoming events

Open Days are a great way to find out more about studying Mathematics at the University and to explore the campus and city.

Find out more and book your place here

Complexity Systems Dynamics (CoSyDy) Meeting

5 June 2013

Complexity in Economics and Social Dynamics

32nd Mathematics Teachers and Advisers Conference

25 June 2013

The teachers and advisers conference provides an interface between the School of Mathematics at the University of Leeds and teachers in schools and sixth forms.