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This event took place Sunday 27 August 2023 at the University of Stellenbosch.

The University of Cape Town will be hosting the annual Strings conference virtually from 29th of June 2020 to the 03rd July 2020.

The Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at UCT hosted the 62nd Annual Congress of the South African Mathematical Society during the period 2-4 December 2019.

Off to Madrid! Congratulations to PhD students Sulona Kandhai and Miguel Alfonzo Méndez together with Masters students Mariam Campbell and Juhi Hurgobin who will spend the next 5 months at the Autonomous University of Madrid, funded by the Erasm

2016 was a great year for teaching at UCT, at least if you go by the number of people that won a Distinguished Teacher Award (DTA). Dr Jonathan Shock, who convenes a dreaded first-year mathematics course, was one of six award

Primes - numbers greater than 1 that are divisible only by themselves and 1 – are considered the ‘building blocks’ of mathematics, because every number is either a prime or can be built by multiplying primes together - (84, f

14 March is celebrated by some as the most exciting day in mathematics — when the date lines up in the numbers