In response to the poor state of generally available careers advice for mathematicians, Vanessa Thorogood, Education Officer at the IMA has produced an IMA Maths Careers Advice leaflet. I would recommend this to anyone who is interested in careers advice for mathematics undergraduates or mathematics graduates or who offers such advice through a graduate careers…
Obscure number facts
I noticed today a link to the Travels in a Mathematical World podcast from the blog of Duncan Margetts, “Dunc’s Shed”. It’s great to see someone liking and pointing others to the podcast :) Duncan was sufficiently impressed by the peculiar episode number facts that he was moved to write about palindromic numbers on his…
iSquared Magazine
As you may know, Sarah Shepherd helps me out with the podcast by meeting with me once a month to talk over some maths news. Sarah edits iSquared Magazine, which I’m sure some of you will be familiar with. Sarah sent through some information about iSquared which I thought I would share in case you…
London University Events
Noel-Ann Bradshaw of the University of Greenwich has been trying to get a group of London Universities together to cross promote events. In London there is such a concentration of universities and such a lot going on that it makes sense to cross-promote events between students at different universities. Anyway, this group is going well…
Podcast: Episode 13 – History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw – Florence Nightingale
These are the show notes for episode 13 of the Travels in a Mathematical World podcast. 13 is prime and is the number of Archimedian solids, which includes the Truncated Icosahedron, the shape used in the construction of common footballs and is a model of the structure of the fullerene allotrope of carbon, which is…
Mathematics graduates’ employability skills
Yesterday the BBC highlighted the issue of graduate employability with a story about a Government plan to offer graduate internships at top companies. One of the things I do when I’m not University Liaison Officer for the IMA is some lecturing at Nottingham Trent University. As part of this, I am currently enrolled on the…
Podcast: Episode 12 – Terry Lyons – Stochastic Calculus
These are the show notes for episode 12 of the Travels in a Mathematical World podcast. 12, the number of edges of a cube, is the first number that can be written as a product of its proper divisors in more than one way. These are, of course, 2×6 and 3×4. More about the number…