I seem to spend half my life in St. Pancras Railway Station. Today I was passing through London on my way to Reading for a visit there tomorrow. On the train from Nottingham I had a cheap advanced ticket. These are tickets where you pay a low price because you guarantee to be on a…
Truchet Art
On Tuesday evening I attended a Maths-Art Seminar at London Knowledge Lab. This was a talk by Cameron Browne on Truchet curves and surfaces. More information on this and other topics, as well as some interesting visuals can be found at Cameron’s website. Maths-Art Seminars are videoed and available in the fullness of time through…
Receiving Marcus’ wisdom
On Tuesday, I attended a Maths Promoters Network event at De Morgan House at which Marcus du Sautoy gave a talk on public engagement with mathematics. This talk was a very personal one on Marcus’ experience of dealing with the media and was very interesting. An interesting point was Marcus’ belief that it was valuable…
Quake hits London!
Overnight there was an earth quake. Oblivious, I managed to sleep through this, though plenty of people have talked about it today. There are seismologists scrambling to measure the quake and reports are giving values on the logarithmic Richter Scale. The suggestion that this quake was caused by an old fault in the East Midlands…
A silly waste of time: YouTube
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…