On Tuesday I visited the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester in the new Alan Turing Building (pictured) at the invitation of the Mathsoc there. I had a useful day and met some interesting students and staff.
While there I ate lunch at the cafe in the Alan Turing building, which is called “Pi in the Sky”. It seems to me if you’re going to have a cafe in a maths building, you might as well use a Pi pun.
Travels: my travels, I am the traveller (literally).
Mathematical World is overtly to suggest I will be travelling around meeting mathematicians and inhabiting the world of that community. Beyond this, since I am actually travelling around the UK and hope to see how applied mathematics relates to everyday life it is also to indicate that actually the mathematical world is no different from the rest of the world; that in fact mathematics is in everything around us.
It is a mathematical world to highlight that I can only write about the world as I experience it, and others might see difference views.
A traditional first post. I am going to be travelling around a lot as part of my new job as University Liaison Officer for the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA). I am keeping this blog, for better or worse, to keep track of where I go and highlight any interesting tidbits I pick up along the way.