Mathematics

About this course

Mathematics is often described in terms of its beauty or its difficulty, but what it really is, at the deepest level, is a language for describing patterns and relationships with absolute precision. This precision is what makes it so powerful: the same mathematical structures appear in the behaviour of financial markets, the spread of diseases, the design of computer algorithms and the curvature of spacetime. A mathematics degree develops your ability to think with this kind of rigour, to construct proofs, to work with abstraction and to apply formal methods to problems that initially resist solution. At the University of Leicester, the three-year full-time degree covers the full breadth of the subject, from pure mathematics including analysis, algebra and topology, to applied mathematics in areas such as mechanics, mathematical physics and mathematical modelling. You will also develop

Where its graduates go

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