I wrote a guest blog post for the Careers Group, University of London, entitled “What do mathematicians do?“, in which I talk about giving my careers talk for the IMA and what I tell students about careers options for mathematics graduates and being a professional. Read this blog post: What do mathematicians do?.
TEXTp lives!
Following my previous post, “ASCII Me“, the TEXTp ‘feature’ is no longer available after April Fools Day, so here is a video of what it looked like.
ASCII Art Me
YouTube have introduced a text-only mode for April Fool’s Day – TEXTp. If you view a video, where the choice of quality – 360p, 480p, etc. – is, you can choose TEXTp. Here is what I look like in ASCII characters giving my cryptography talk (click to enlarge): Here is a link to my video…
Podcast: Episode 57 – History of Maths and x, Shape of the cosmos: Developments from Newton to Einstein
These are the show notes for episode 57 of the Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast. 57 is the so-called Grothendieck prime. The story goes that brilliant mathematician Alexandre Grothendieck was asked to name a prime number and gave 57, which is, of course, not prime. This story is used to illustrate how some mathematicians…
Mathematics Today April 2010: University Liaison Officer’s Report
[N.B. Followers of the podcast will know that there was a delay in releasing new episodes, so the podcast has not, at time of writing, reached 60 episodes.] Podcast at sixty By the time you read this, the Travels in a Mathematical World podcast will have released sixty episodes. I began producing the podcast in…
Podcast: Episode 56 – Edmund Harriss, Development and teaching of mathematical ideas
These are the show notes for episode 56 of the Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast. 56 is the 6th tetrahedral number, meaning it is the sum of the first six triangular numbers. More about tetrahedral numbers from thesaurus.maths.org. This week on the podcast I spoke to Edmund Harriss of the University of Leicester, and…
Podcast: Episode 55 – Edmund Harriss, Tilings, motivations and Street Maths
These are the show notes for episode 55 of the Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast. 55 is the largest triangular number in the Fibonacci sequence. More about 55 from Number Gossip. This week on the podcast I spoke to Edmund Harriss of the University of Leicester, who speaks about his research area of tiling…