Mathematics and statistics are not only powerful problem-solving tools, but also highly creative fields of studies that combine precision with intuition, and imagination with logic.
Mathematics is much more than numbers! Its basic goal is to reveal general patterns that explain our world: these can appear in electrical impulses of the human nervous system, in the evolution of animal populations in their habitats, or in fluctuations in stock-market prices. Mathematics is at the centre of science and engineering and reaches beyond into medicine, business and the social sciences.
Advances in mathematics and statistics lie behind many discoveries that are now part of our daily lives, such as MRI scanners, digital compression of music and video, secure electronic communications, data mining, genomic algorithms, stock market pricing, video games and more. Where there is technology, there is mathematics.
To study mathematics, you have to love the subject and appreciate its beauty. It is a fascinating subject to study. Mathematics, music, literature and a few other subjects are the fundamental blocks of human knowledge, the product of thousands of years of civilisation.
In this section of the website, we introduce some of the beautiful fields of mathematics and hopefully teach you some mathematics in the process, we look at the impact of mathematics in our life and at the jobs that people with a degree in mathematics or statistics do, etc.
Our intention in this section of the website is to give you many reasons to study mathematics and to seriously consider a career in one of the fascinating fields of mathematics and statistics.