Add new comment
-
Want facts and want them fast? Our Maths in a minute series explores key mathematical concepts in just a few words.
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!
Don't like plant-based meat alternatives, but want to spare animals and the environment? There's hope on the horizon, aided by a good helping of maths.
It always amazes me that besides the Cartesian plane, Descartes was also the person who introduced the basic form of (Re) +(Im)i for complex numbers and yet never thought to plot this on his plane. It was Wallis (1685) nearly 50 years later that suggested it and then the idea only got traction once Gauss liked the work of Argand in 1831.
[I tell my students who miss a connection between two ideas, that even some of the greats, like Descartes, missed a connection.]