Your journey as a King's mathematician starts here

Congratulations on your offer to study Mathematics at King’s College London. We’re thrilled to welcome you to our community.

Here you’ll find information from current students and academics to help you get a feel for your course and prepare you for your studies at King's.

Student Stories

Read blog posts from current students about life as a King's mathematician:

• Aadi talks about studying Mathematics at King's.
• Clara reveals why she chose to study Mathematics.
• Read Archit's top 5 tips for Mathematics with Management and Finance students.
• Shambs shares how university is different from school.
• Laura tells you why she chose to study Mathematics and Philosophy.
• Trisha gives you her top 5 tips for studying Mathematics.
• Read Shamb's blog about what a day in the life of a Mathematics student is like.
• Shambs talks about her experience with the King's Career Service.

As well as your studies, there are loads of ways you can get involved in the King's community:

• Meet like-minded people at one of the 300 KCLSU societies. There is something for everyone, from basketball to baking.
• Listen to the Nightingale podcast, which aims to inspire women in STEM.
• KCL Womxn in STEM society

Get a flavour for what you might learn as a Mathematics student by watching these taster videos given by your academics:

• Linear Algebra and Geometry I with Dr Nazar Miheisi
• Linear Algebra and Geometry II with Professor Konstanze Rietsch
• Introduction to Algebra with Professor Payman Kassaei
• Calculus I with Dr Paul Cook
• Calculus II with Professor Christopher Herzog
• Introduction to Dynamical Systems with Professor Gerard Watts

Sukhi, Rachel and Muhammad take you on a tour of the Strand campus, where the Department of Mathematics is based.

• You can also watch tours of our other campuses, including Waterloo, Guy's and Denmark Hill.

• Chat 1-2-1 with on of our current students on Unibuddy
• See what Undergraduate Offer Holder events are available
• Explore the Women in STEM Scholarship and other scholarships and bursaries available to help support your studies

There are a number of events you can join as an offer holder to learn more about the King's community:

Past events

• In February/March 2025, King's hosted the Women in STEMM Season - a month-long celebration of women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine.
• On 5 March 2025:Women in STEMM: Inspiring Inclusion - Strategies that work
• June 2024: The mathematics of paper with Dr Katie Steckles
• In March 2024, Professors Nikolay Gromov and Payman Kassaei led the Maths Inaugural Lecture - it is available to watch online.
• Women in STEMM: Mind the gap - a leap towards equality is available to watch online.

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PhD student Sophie Maclean made global headlines in 2023 after she created a code that can read an existing list of swearwords and analyse their qualities to create a new one.

Maclean used a Markov chain: a mathematical model that predicts the probability of a sequence based on previous inputs to determine the ultimate curse word. 

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Audio-based AI unreliable for predicting Covid-19 infection

Research undertaken by King's statisticians found that technology using Machine Learning performed no better than simply asking people to report their symptoms. 

The team collected and analysed a dataset of audio recordings from more than 67,000 individuals with Covid-19 symptoms who recorded themselves coughing, breathing an talking. 

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Science investment at King's

King's supercharges science with major investment in talent, education and research.

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