The Archimedeans - About Us


	About Us The Archimedeans is the Cambridge University Mathematial Society. Our purpose is to provide people with an interest in mathematics a platform to interact both academically and socially. One of our main focuses is on providing engaging and entertaining speaker meetings, where distinguished academics from around the UK, and occasionally abroad, come to talk us. The talks are aimed at a general audience, so will be suitable for all undergraduates with a mathematical background. On the social side, we have the annual May Week Garden Party and every year we have our aptly-named Annual Dinner. Along with these, we have punt trips, croquet matches and our annual Problems Drive, which is a contest in which our counterparts in Oxford and Warwick often join. Each year, we produce a journal, Eureka, which contains brief articles of interest to undergraduate mathematicians, as well as book reviews and problems taken from our annual Problems Drive. Each member receives three copies of Eureka free of charge. We also have a smaller publication, QARCH, containing problems from the casual brain-teaser to unsolved questions in mathematics. QARCH is published online - click here for more. We provide key resources to undergraduates in mathematics. The main one is our bookshop which provides books of a mathematical nature at low prices (45% of RRP for members). Another resource we provide is our Alternative Guide, containing invaluable advice for freshers before they get to Cambridge. And lastly, we of course have our website, which acts as a central information resource by collating all the online lecture notes into one convenient location. Further information on any of these aspects can be found by browsing the website.