The 2017 Prizes for Mathematics and Statistics have been awarded to Dr Anders Hansen, Dr Oscar Randal-Williams and Dr Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb all of the University of Cambridge; Professor Dominic Vella (University of Oxford) and Dr Hendrik Weber (University of Warwick). The Society congratulates all the award winners, in particular LMS members Dr Oscar Randal-Williams, also a 2017 LMS Whitehead Prize winner and Dr Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, the 2018 LMS Mary Cartwright Lecturer. 

Professor Christiane Rousseau, Université de Montréal, will receive the inaugural Bertrand Russell Prize of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) in recognition of her 'many contributions furthering human values and the common good through mathematics'. 

The Louis Bachelier Prize is a biennial prize jointly awarded by the London Mathematical Society (LMS), the Natixis Foundation for Quantitative Research and the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI). The winners are prominent personalities, widely recognized in the academic and professional worlds of quantitative finance and/or risk management.

Past LMS President Professor Dame Frances Kirwan FRS has been elected to the Savilian Professorship at the University of Oxford. Professor Kirwan is the first woman to hold the Professorship since it was founded in 1619.

On 4 October 2017 the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) will release a new polymer £10 note into circulation, featuring a portrait of Scottish mathematician and astronomer Mary Somerville, and a quote form her publication On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences. 

An article about Somerville was published in the LMS Newsletter in January 2017.

The number of A-level Mathematics entries across the UK is up 3.3% on last year, with 95,244 students sitting the exam.

Figures released today by the Joint Council for Qualifications also show that

The founder of the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) Landon T. Clay passed away on July 29. Clay was a generous benefactor to mathematics and founded CMI in 1998 with his wife, Lavinia D. Clay The primary objective of CMI is to ‘encourage the increase and dissemination of mathematical knowledge’.

Clay was not himself a mathematician, having graduated from Harvard with a degree in English. His career as a successful businessman and in finance and science-based venture capital funding allowed him to devote his time and energy to philanthropic causes

The London Mathematical Society welcomes the report, published today, of Professor Sir Adrian Smith’s review of post-16 mathematics.  As part of the mathematics community, we welcome its recognition of the importance of mathematics, and its analysis of the need to improve take-up and achievement in 16-18 mathematics.  The report makes significant recommendations for strengthening the provision of a variety of post-16 mathematics pathways, so that within a decade all 16-18 students should have access to appropriately rewarding and challenging routes of study.