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Sailing through mathematics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Sue Singer
Sue Singer*
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It is a very great honour and privilege to be addressing you today. It has been a particularly interesting year politically at least as far as mathematics is concerned. Despite what seems in many ways a prosperous and optimistic situation in this country at the moment, mathematics is in a very serious state. Our subject is the key to living successfully in the modern technological world, but we have a grave shortage of mathematicians. In addition there are endless complaints from employers and the general public that young people leave school without the necessary mathematical skills to cope with everyday life.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 90 , Issue 519 , November 2006 , pp. 385 - 397
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 2006

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