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The School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester is one of the largest 〔Certainly the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge is larger. Exact figures for Cambridge are hard to come by as the faculty is divided into DPMMS and DAMTP (which includes some physicists). In the 2001 RAE Cambridge returned 60 applied mathematicians and 38 pure mathematicians as lecturers and professors. In any measure Cambridge is bigger. Oxfords 2001 RAE return () lists 43 pure, 32 applied and also 12 statisticians making it slightly larger than and the size may have increased. Probably the next biggest after Manchester is Leeds with about 70 academic staff over pure, applied and statistics.〕 mathematics departments in the United Kingdom, with around 80 academic staff and an undergraduate intake of roughly 400 a year (including students studying mathematics with a minor in another subject)〔League Tables of UK Mathematics Departments, () gives more details of size.〕 and another 200 postgraduate students. The school was formed in 2004 by the merger of the mathematics departments of University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) and the Victoria University of Manchester (VUM). In July 2007 the school moved from the Mathematics Tower into a purpose-designed building – the first three floors of the Alan Turing Building – on Upper Brook Street. ==Organization== The current head of the school is Peter Duck. The school is divided, mainly for the purposes of teaching administration, into three groups: ''Pure Mathematics'' headed by Peter Rowley, ''Applied Mathematics'' headed by David Silvester, and ''Probability and Statistics'' headed by Tusheng Zhang. The Manchester Institute for Mathematical Sciences (MIMS) is a unit of the school focusing on the organising of mathematical colloquia and conferences, and research visitors. MIMS is headed by Nick Higham FRS, who is also Director of Research. Other high profile mathematicians at Manchester include Sir Martin Taylor FRS and Jeff Paris (Fellow of the British Academy) Since its formation, the school has made some influential appointments including the topologist Viktor Buchstaber (a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences) and model theorist Alex Wilkie FRS. Numerical analyst Jack Dongarra, famous as one of the authors of LINPACK, was appointed in 2007 as Turing Fellow. In the autumn of 2007 another corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Albert Shiryaev was appointed to a 20% chair. Shiryaev is famous for his work on probability theory (he was a student of Kolmogorov) and for his work on financial mathematics. As might be expected from its size, the school has a wide range of research interests, including the traditionally pure areas of Algebra, Analysis, Noncommutative geometry, Ergodic theory, Mathematical logic, Number theory, Geometry and Topology; and the more applied Dynamical system, Fluid dynamics, Solid mechanics, Inverse problems, Mathematical finance, Wave propagation and Scattering. The school also has a strong tradition in Numerical analysis and well established groups in Probability theory, and Mathematical statistics. Manchester mathematicians have a long tradition of applying mathematics to industrial problems. Nowadays this involves not only the traditional applications in engineering and the physical sciences, but also in the life sciences and the financial sector. Some of the recent industrial partners include Qinetiq, Hewlett Packard, NAg, MathWorks, Comsol, Philips Labs, Thales Underwater Systems, Rapiscan Systems and Schlumberger. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「School of Mathematics, University of Manchester」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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