Add new comment
-
Want facts and want them fast? Our Maths in a minute series explores key mathematical concepts in just a few words.
How is frequency related to pitch? Hear the music we love emerge from pure mathematical beats.
We talk to Stuart Johnston who uses mathematics to find out how noise pollution in the oceans impacts whales.
Generating electricity without the use of fossil fuels is not just an engineering and industrial challenge, it is also a huge mathematical challenge.
In this podcast author Coralie Colmez shares insights into her novel The irrational diary of Clara Valentine.
We talk to early career mathematicians who spent some of their summer holiday solving problems posed by industry — such as how to blend a perfect smoothie!
I think commonwealth countries i.e. Australia, will get some "home advantage" effect because
a) of the shared culture,
b) the shared ancestry means that they probably have relatives there and
c) the commonwealth young doing their "O.E." in England
all of which makes them comfortable in London i.e. feel like a second home.
(O.E. = overseas experience i.e. a trip to look at the big wide world)
Ever since the English settled New Zealand, parts of the NZ population (and newspapers) have referred to England as "Home" and that was still going on in to the 1950s, even for people who'd never been born in England.
So, I suspect, the home advantage effect won't be as strong for England, mainly because other Commonwealth Coutries will get a share of that home advantage and, because of the shared sporting heritage, they'll be battling over some of the same medals i.e. equestrian and sailling rather than table tennis and syncronised swimming.