The Prime Minister has approved a 651 billion VND maths development programme during the 2010-2020 period.
The programme focusing on maths research, application and lectures
aims to bring Vietnam maths to the world’s 40 th place by 2020 from
the current 50-55 th position.
By 2020, Vietnam
strives to have enough qualified maths lecturers at universities and
colleges, more than 70 percent of whom are PhD degree holders. Maths
institutes and a number of major universities’ maths faculties are
expected to become regional maths training and research centres by that
year.
The programme aims to improve the quality of
maths training and broaden its scale at general education and higher
education as well.
Under the programme, the number
of internationally announced maths publications is expected to double
from the 2010 figure.
To achieve these targets, the
programme will build the Maths Research Institute (MRI), to assist key
maths application schemes, send maths researchers and teachers overseas
for further training and organise domestic and international maths
conferences.
Maths is among basic sciences that have
developed well in the country since 1954, said Prof Le Tuan Hoa from
the Vietnam Maths Association, adding that Vietnam won one gold, four
silvers and one bronze at the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO)
2010 in Kazakhstan .
Vietnam has attended
the IMOs 34 times since 1974 with 45 golds, 82 silvers and 63 bronzes.
The country has been among the top 10 countries of almost 100 countries
and territories over the past 10 years.
Noteworthy,
Prof. Ngo Bao Chau, who is the country’s youngest maths professor and
famous for the Langlands’ fundamental lemma project, is a candidate for
the Fields prize. The prize will be announced at the International
Congress of Mathematicians in India on August 19, 2010./.
