Some 8,020 candidates had been placed on mathematical science degrees by yesterday morning compared with 9,040 at the same stage last year - a fall of 11 per cent.

Applied statistics can be regarded as not a field of mathematics but an autonomous mathematical science, like computer science and operations research.

Numerical analysis and, more broadly, scientific computing also study non-analytic topics of mathematical science, especially algorithmic matrix and graph theory.

In his secular life he was devoted to mathematical science, and particularly to astronomy.

In the year of 1959/60, a new division of mathematical science, and another division were introduced.