These are the show notes for episode 46 of the Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast. 46 is the number of human chromosomes. More about 46 from Number Gossip. Prof Frank Kelly, Master of Christ’s College Cambridge, talks about his career researching random processes, networks and optimization both within the University of Cambridge and through…
Podcast: Episode 45 – Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
These are the show notes for episode 45 of the Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast. 45 is the only number that is the sum of its digits multiplied by 5 More about 45 from Number Gossip. This week on the podcast I met Sarah Shepherd, PhD student at the University of Nottingham and Editor…
Maths money savers
Matt Parker, who we heard from in Travels in a Mathematical World episode 31, stars in a new series of videos for the TDA. In each, Matt uses maths to solve a problem involving money. According to a press release the aim is to recruit maths teachers. Dude, where’s my petrol money Plane facts Skills…
Podcast: Episode 44 – Andrew Cates, his career
These are the show notes for episode 44 of the Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast. 44 is the smallest number which is the sum of a reversible pair of non-palindromic primes. More about 44 from Number Gossip. Dr Andrew Cates, CEO of SOS Children, talks about his career working for Shell as strategy consultancy,…
Podcast: Episode 43 – Victor Arulchandran, wave dispersion and PhD skills
These are the show notes for episode 43 of the Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast. 43 is the smallest non-palindromic prime which on subtracting its reverse gives a perfect square. More about 43 from Number Gossip. This time on the podcast Victor Arulchandran of Brunel University talked to me (in a quite noisy tea…
Barcodes
Recently I found out via @beverycool on Twitter that Wolfram|Alpha encodes text as barcodes. For example, here is Peter Rowlett: Just imagine the uses! Well. Hmm. Not sure how useful, but it certainly seems neat! ;) @beverycool is suggesting the Google Doodle for 7th October (a barcode of the word Google) might have been created…
Podcast: Episode 42 – Ed Galea, His career, part 2: Crowd evacuation modelling
These are the show notes for episode 42 of the Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast. 42 is The Ultimate Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. Last week we heard Professor Ed Galea of the University of Greenwich talk about his career from origins in astrophysics and how this led…