Last week Dr Simon Singh, a mathematician and author, gave the third Berkeley Lecture on ‘The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets’. Prof Stephen Buckley, head of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of NUI Maynooth, heard Singh’s theory.

This dumbed down syllabus is a distortion of the mathematics required to equip our students for third-level education, writes Dr Eugene Gath

TWO research programmes at the University of Limerick (UL) have received substantial funding from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), it was announced yesterday.