Members of staff teach undergraduate and Honours courses in Pure and Applied Mathematics, and supervise students in our MSc and PhD programs. In addition, the School offers courses in remedial mathematics and runs numerous service courses for other departments. Members of the School have access to a wide range of journals and related services like MathSciNet.

Staff and students in the School conduct research in a number of areas of Pure and Applied Mathematics, including Algebra, Analysis, Combinatorics, Cosmology and General Relativity, Differential Equations, Financial Mathematics, Mathematics Education, Mathematical Modelling, and Topology. Eight of our fourteen NRF-rated researchers have earned a B (Internationally Acclaimed) rating.  We are one of the most active research units in the university. Three of the sixteen recipients of the university-wide Vice-Chancellor's Research Award have been members of the School. In 2003, staff in the School published 32 SAPSE-unit articles in international journals. Several members of the School sit on the editorial boards of international journals. The School has hosted a number of international conferences.