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Dr. Waka's remarkable journey to PhD

Commencement Celebration 2019

The Mathematics and Applied Mathematics Department hosted their commencement celebration braai on the 08/02/2019 at the UCT Tennis Club, Upper Campus

Welcome to Mathematics and Applied Mathematics Department

Mathematics underlies the rise of science and technology, and is also a very interesting area of study in its own right. Its pursuit is the rigorous study of patterns: in geometry, in time and space, in nature, in physics, in biology, in in

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Mathematics and Applied Mathematics Department held Honours Braai

The Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town (MAM, for short) is world-renowned for the strength of its research and teaching. MAM has more than thirty permanent academic members of staff, is home to

Honours

Shuttleworth Postgraduate Scholarship

The Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics of the University of Cape Town is a large and dynamic department with research taking place in a wide range of directions: (non-associative) algebra, category theory, computational fluid

Dr. Waka's remarkable journey to PhD

Dr Waka, graduated with a PhD in pure mathematics from the University of Cape Town September 2024.

Future Mathematicians Programme Expedition

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

Departmental Profile

Our department features over 35 permanent, full time, members of academic staff

A high number of our academic staff members hold a rating of the National Research Foundation (NRF) and several of them are internationally recognised as leading experts in their respective fields.

Each year we teach over 5000 students from a wide variety of departments and faculties and about 50 postgraduate students are trained in our department.

Our outreach programs to thousands of high school students in the Western Cape (the UCT Mathematics Competition, the UCT Mathematical Circle, Olympiad training programmes and the quarterly magazine Mathematical Digest) provide opportunities for promising young mathematicians to discover their mathematical potential, and encourage them to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.