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SPIC Science Foundation founds the school that became Chennai Mathematical Institute

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SPIC Science Foundation founds the school that became Chennai Mathematical Institute
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The SPIC Science Foundation founded a School of Mathematics in Madras, which grew into the Chennai Mathematical Institute.

The Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) was founded in 1989 by the SPIC Science Foundation as its School of Mathematics. It was renamed the SPIC Mathematical Institute in 1996 and took its present name in 1998. Initially housed in an office complex in T. Nagar, it offers programmes in mathematics, physics and computer science and is noted for research in algebraic geometry. It moved to a campus at Siruseri in 2005 and was recognised as a university in 2006.

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