16-05-2025
Billionaire to open maths school for the most talented children
One of Britain's biggest taxpayers is opening the country's first specialist secondary school for exceptionally talented young mathematicians.
Alex Gerko, a Russian-born billionaire, has already spent millions of pounds trying to improve numeracy in this country. He is now launching a 'needs blind' private school, offering bursaries to those who cannot afford the fees, which is due to open in September next year in north London.
It will be called 1729 Maths School because of the number's significance in maths as the smallest sum of two cubes expressed in different ways (it is known as the Hardy-Ramanujan or 'taxicab' number).
Gerko, the founder of XTX Markets, went to a specialist maths school in Moscow from the age of 12 and wants British children to
