During my travels I will be videoing people telling jokes… for better or worse! You can view these on YouTube. At the moment the inaugural videos are Pete Green and Frank Howarth, undergraduate students at the University of Manchester. Pete tells some jokes and Frank gives some chat up lines.
Professor Clement Workman Jones CMath FIMA
The work I am doing as University Liaison Officer received funding from a bequest of £20,000 from Clement W. Jones. This is gratefully noted, along with a short biography of Professor Jones in a piece in the latest issue of Mathematics Today and on the IMA website.
A Millennium of Mathematical Puzzles
On Wednesday night I attended a talk by Robin Wilson at Gresham College on mathematical puzzles. Gresham have videoed the talk and made it available online: “A Millennium of Mathematical Puzzles”, as well as a large number of other talks of mathematical and other interest available from the same site. Plus don’t forget you can…
Greenwich and Gresham
On Wednesday I visited the School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences (CMS) at the University of Greenwich at the invitation of Noel-Ann Bradshaw, who amongst many other roles is involved with the Mathsoc at Greenwich and with the British Society for the History of Mathematics. I also spent time with Tony Mann, Head of Department…
IMA Lancs & NW event
In the evening on Tuesday I attended a talk by Liz Henning of the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) to the Lancashire and North West Branch of the IMA at Manchester Metropolitan University. This was an interesting talk on school teaching of mathematics and provoked a fairly lively discussion. More…
Shiny new building in Manchester
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…
A note on the title
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…