Mathematics
Average intake
Eight to ten
Course details
Mathematics at Oxford University
Mathematics and Computer Science at Oxford University
Mathematics and Statistics at Oxford University
Mathematics and Philosophy at Oxford University
Tutors
Professor Ulrike Tillmann, Professorial Fellow
Professor Alexander Scott, Tutorial Fellow
More about Maths at Merton
- We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and nationalities. Merton College is a member of the Mathematics Admission Group and works closely together with the other colleges.
- Merton’s mathematicians have a strong academic record.
- Most students continue to the four year Maths course and many go on to do a post-graduate degree.
- Mathematics is one of the larger schools in Merton. This is also
reflected by the number of mathematicians amongst its fellowship, including Sir Andrew Wiles, well-known through his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem; Professor of Logic Boris Zilber; Professor Artur Ekert, a specialist in quantum computation, and Professor Dominic Welsh, an expert in discrete mathematics who has written several books for undergraduates on cryptography, codes, complexity as well as knots. In addition Merton has a large cohort of graduate students studying Mathematics and related subjects. - Mathematics has a long history at Merton, going nearly all the way
back to the foundation of the college and the university. In the early 14th century the Merton Calculators became famous through their Merton Rule: the distance an object moving at constant acceleration will have covered during any time period is the same as the distance it would have covered during the same time if it had travelled at its mean speed. In the Renaissance, Henry Briggs — the first Savilian Professor of Geometry (1619-1630) — became well-known through his work on logarithms (still often referred to as Briggs logarithms); some claim he was also the inventor of the method of long devision still commonly used today. More recently, former undergraduate and present honorary fellow Andrew Wiles made headlines with his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
