I was asked a question from a keen 13 year old school student who has been playing around with Pythagorean triples. I asked Twitter for “inspiring reading” for such a student (and @DrLucyRogers & @MEImath retweeted this request). The responses were good and @robbieg8s wrote to ask me to post the list somewhere. Here it…
Mathematics Today February 2010: University Liaison Officer’s Report
10 ‘rules’ for a successful Careers Fair for mathematicians So you’re organising a careers fair for mathematics students? Okay, it’s a tall order you’ve set yourself but it can be done! I have attended careers fairs that have worked for mathematics students and those which have not worked as well. I would like to share…
Podcast: Episode 51 – Sebastien Guenneau, Optical wave guides and applied mathematics research
These are the show notes for episode 51 of the Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast. 51 is the smallest number which can be written with all the digits from 1 to 5 (without repetition) as a sum of primes: 51 = 2 + 3 + 5 + 41. More about 51 from Number Gossip.…
Maths Maps
Over at edte.ch blog, Tom Barrett has been encouraging people to get involved with Maths Maps, a collaborative initative to create classroom resources that you are invited to contribute to. The idea is to put mathematical or numeracy activities and questions into real world maps, for example in the shapes or numbers of objects found…
Macro December
The last two blog posts have attempted to catch up this blog on October and November. This post will be an attempt to bring December up to date. I started the month by giving a lecture at Nottingham on subsitution ciphers for the History of maths and x and recording this using the in-room capture…
Where I’ve been and what I did there… on a map
At the change of semester, I am again in a brief planning stage (the calm before the storm), trying to work out where to direct my efforts. A major consideration is where I have been. Last time I was in this position, back in September, I wrote a blog post Where I’ve been and what…
Macro November
If you read the previous blog post, you will realise I am slightly remorseful at the reduction in blog posts since I started using Twitter and am attempting to quickly catch up ready to post more often in future. Here is a catchup post for November. By the start of November, I had noticed the…