Mathematics

About this course

Mathematics at degree level is one of the most demanding and rewarding intellectual disciplines available. It takes you from the results learned at school into a world of rigorous proof, abstract structure, and profound generality, where you learn not just how to compute but why results are true, and how apparently different areas of mathematics are connected by deep unifying ideas. The discipline develops extraordinary capacities for logical reasoning, pattern recognition, and the construction of precise arguments, capacities that are valuable in almost every field of human endeavour. At the University of Edinburgh you will study this four-year full-time degree, which includes a year abroad, giving you the opportunity to experience mathematical education at a different university, often one with particular strengths in areas that interest you. Edinburgh's School of Mathematics is inter

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