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The Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge comprises the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS) and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP). It is housed in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences site in West
Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge becam ...
, alongside the Isaac Newton Institute. Many distinguished mathematicians have been members of the faculty.


Some current members


DPMMS

* Béla Bollobás * John Coates *
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* Timothy Gowers * Peter Johnstone *
Imre Leader Imre Bennett Leader is a British Othello player, employed as a professor of pure mathematics at Cambridge University. As a child, he was a pupil at the private St Paul's School and won a silver medal on the British team at the 1981 Internatio ...
* Gabriel Paternain


Statistical Laboratory

* John Aston * Geoffrey Grimmett *
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* Ioannis Kontoyiannis * Richard Nickl * James Norris *
Richard Samworth Richard John Samworth (born May 1978) is the Professor of Statistical Science and the Director of the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and a Teaching Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was educated at St John's College ...
* David Spiegelhalter * Richard Weber


DAMTP

*
Gary Gibbons Gary William Gibbons (born 1 July 1946) is a British theoretical physicist. Education Gibbons was born in Coulsdon, Surrey. He was educated at Purley County Grammar School and the University of Cambridge, where in 1969 he became a researc ...
* Julia Gog, professor of mathematical biology * Raymond E. Goldstein * Rich Kerswell * Paul Linden * Michael Green * Peter Haynes, fluid dynamicist * John Hinch, fluid dynamicist, retired 2014 *
Richard Jozsa Richard Jozsa is an Australian mathematician who holds the Leigh Trapnell Chair in Quantum Physics at the University of Cambridge. He is a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, where his research investigates quantum information science. A pion ...
* Hugh Osborn * John Papaloizou * Malcolm Perry * David Tong, theoretical physicist *
Paul Townsend Paul Kingsley Townsend FRS (; born 3 March 1951) is a British physicist, currently a Professor of Theoretical Physics in Cambridge University's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. He is notable for his work on string th ...
*
Grae Worster Michael Grae Worster (born 16 July 1958) is a British fluid dynamicist at the University of Cambridge. He is a professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Since 2007, he h ...
, editor for the '' Journal of Fluid Mechanics'' * Mihaela van der Schaar * Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb


Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics

The Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS) was created in 1964 under the headship of Sir William Hodge. It was housed in a converted warehouse at 16 Mill Lane, adjacent to its sister department DAMTP, until its move around 2000 to the present Centre for Mathematical Sciences where it occupies Pavilions C, D, and E.


Heads of department

*1964–1969
W. V. D. Hodge Sir William Vallance Douglas Hodge (; 17 June 1903 – 7 July 1975) was a British mathematician, specifically a geometer. His discovery of far-reaching topological relations between algebraic geometry and differential geometry—an area now c ...
*1969–1984 J. W. S. Cassels *1984–1991 D. J. H. Garling *1991–1997
John H. Coates John Henry Coates (26 January 1945 – 9 May 2022) was an Australian mathematician who was the Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom from 1986 to 2012. Early life and education Coates ...
*1997–2002
W. B. R. Lickorish William Bernard Raymond Lickorish (born 19 February 1938) is a mathematician. He is emeritus professor of geometric topology in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge, and also an emeritus fellow ...
*2002–2007 Geoffrey Grimmett *2007–2014
Martin Hyland (John) Martin Elliott Hyland is professor of mathematical logic at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of King's College, Cambridge. His interests include mathematical logic, category theory, and theoretical computer science. Education Hy ...
*2014–2018 Gabriel Paternain *2018– James Norris


Statistical Laboratory

The Statistical Laboratory is a Sub-Department of DPMMS. It was created in 1947 with accommodation in a "temporary hut", and was established on 21 March 1953 within the Faculty of Mathematics. It moved in 1958 to the basement of the new Chemistry Department in Lensfield Road, and then formed part of the new Department (DPMMS) in Mill Lane on its creation in 1964. It occupies Pavilion D of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.


Directors of the Statistical Laboratory

*1953–1956 John Wishart *1956–1957
Henry Daniels Henry Ellis Daniels FRS (2 October 1912 – 16 April 2000) was a British statistician. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society (1974–1975), and was awarded its Guy Medal in Gold in 1984, following a silver medal in 1947. He beca ...
, Acting Director *1957–1960
Dennis Lindley Dennis Victor Lindley (25 July 1923 – 14 December 2013) was an English statistician, decision theorist and leading advocate of Bayesian statistics. Biography Lindley grew up in the south-west London suburb of Surbiton. He was an only child an ...
*1960–1962 Morris Walker, Acting Director *1962–1973 David Kendall *1973–1987 Peter Whittle *1987–1991 David Williams *1991–1993
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*1994–2000 Geoffrey Grimmett *2000–2009 Richard Weber *2009–2017 James Norris *2017–
Richard Samworth Richard John Samworth (born May 1978) is the Professor of Statistical Science and the Director of the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and a Teaching Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was educated at St John's College ...


Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

The Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) was founded by
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in 1959, and for many years was situated on Silver Street, in the former office buildings of Cambridge University Press. Currently, the Department is located at the
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. Theoretical Physics (including
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, relativity, and
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) occupies most of Pavilion B, while Applied Mathematics (including fluid dynamics and solid mechanics) occupies most of Pavilions F, G, and H.


Heads of department

*1959–1983
George Batchelor George Keith Batchelor FRS (8 March 1920 – 30 March 2000) was an Australian applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist. He was for many years a Professor of Applied Mathematics in the University of Cambridge, and was founding head of the ...
*1983–1991
Keith Moffatt Henry Keith Moffatt, FRS FRSE (born 12 April 1935) is a Scottish mathematician with research interests in the field of fluid dynamics, particularly magnetohydrodynamics and the theory of turbulence. He was Professor of Mathematical Physics at ...
*1991–2000
David Crighton David George Crighton, FRS (15 November 1942 – 12 April 2000) was a British mathematician and physicist. Life Crighton was born in Llandudno, North Wales, where his mother, Violet Grace Garrison, had been sent because of the bombing of Londo ...
*2000–2005 Timothy J. Pedley *2005–2015 Peter Haynes *2015–2020 Nigel Peake *2020– Colm-Cille Patrick Caulfield


See also

*
Mathematical Tripos The Mathematical Tripos is the mathematics course that is taught in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. It is the oldest Tripos examined at the University. Origin In its classical nineteenth-century form, the tripos was ...
* Wrangler (University of Cambridge) * List of Cambridge mathematicians *Chairs associated with the Faculty: **
Lucasian Professor of Mathematics The Lucasian Chair of Mathematics () is a mathematics professorship in the University of Cambridge, England; its holder is known as the Lucasian Professor. The post was founded in 1663 by Henry Lucas, who was Cambridge University's Member of P ...
** Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry **
Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics The Rouse Ball Professorship of Mathematics is one of the senior chairs in the Mathematics Departments at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. The two positions were founded in 1927 by a bequest from the mathematician W. W. Ro ...
** Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics ** Herchel Smith Professorship of Pure Mathematics ** Professorship of Mathematical Statistics ** Churchill Professorship of Mathematics for Operational Research ** Professorship of Statistical Science **
Winton Professorship of the Public Understanding of Risk The Winton Professorship of the Public Understanding of Risk is a professorship within the Statistical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. It was established in 2007 in perpetuity by a benefaction of £3.3m from the Winton Charitable Foun ...


References


External links

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