Typically a student will do a research project in the final year of degree in mathematics. This will involve research into a topic, a presentation and writing a report on the research. The very best reports are published in a journal such as the Plymouth Student Scientist.
This year two students have had their work published:
A Comparison of Exact and Heuristic Algorithms to Solve the Travelling Salesman Problem, Matthew Chatting
Algebraic Number Theory and Fermat’s Last, Edward Evans