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Published online 3 September 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020902-1

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UK aid for African maths institute

Cambridge will collaborate in Cape Town mathematics initiative.

The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences will open in Cape Town in October 2003, offering master's degrees in mathematics to students from all over the continent.

The institute is a joint venture between the universities of Cape Town, Stellenbosch and the Western Cape and England's University of Cambridge, whose lecturers will spend month-long periods teaching components of the course.

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