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Rupa Patel reflects to Plus on her work as a financial engineer

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When we finally meet the Martians, John Conway believes they are going to want to talk mathematics.

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March 2008
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During World Mathematical Year 2000 a sequence of posters were displayed month by month in the trains of the London Underground aiming to stimulate, fascinate - even infuriate passengers! Keith Moffatt tells us about three of the posters from the series.

Tags: Fibonacci number : chaos : differential equation : Golden Ratio : fluid mechanics : advection-diffusion equation : meteorology : Lorenz equations : butterfly effect : strange attractor : dynamical system


Tags: statistics : chaos : meteorology : forecasting


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Read about what it is like to work at the Meteorological Office in this interview with Helen Hewson. There's also a contact point for careers information.

Tags: computer simulation : Navier-Stokes equations : differential equation : meteorology


Tags: chaos : meteorology : butterfly effect : tornados


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Umbrella or no umbrella? New advances in weather forecasting will help us dodge hurricanes and protect against floods.

Tags: Navier-Stokes equations : mathematical modelling : fluid mechanics : meteorology : forecasting