UNSW Sydney was initially established as the University of Technology in 1948, and a Department of Mathematics was formed in 1949, with Geoffrey Bosson appointed Lecturer in Charge of Mathematics.
The School of Mathematics was established in 1951, with Geoffrey Bosson appointed Foundation Professor of Mathematics that year.Â
The University was launched under the name 'The University of New South Wales' in 1958.
In 2006, the School of Mathematics became the 'School of Mathematics and Statistics'.Â
Succeeding Heads of School, from 1960:
- Geoffrey Bosson (1960 - 1962)
- (1963 - 1964)
- Geoffrey Bosson (1964 - 1968)
- (1968 - 1971)
- (1971 - 1972)
- Viliam Teodor Buchwald (1973 - 1974)
- Abraham Michael Hasofer (1974 - 1976)
- Viliam Teodor Buchwald (1976 - 1980)
- (1980 - 1981)
- (1981 - 1985)
- (1986 - 1990)
- (1991)
- (1992 -1993)
- Colin Eric Sutherland (1994 - 1996)
- (1997 - 2002)
- (2002 - 2007)
- (2008)
- Anthony Haynes Dooley (2009 - 2012)
- Bruce Ian Henry (2012 - 2020)
- Adelle Coster (2021 - 2024)
- (2024 - )
Pictured from top: Bruce Henry, Adelle Coster, Andrew Francis