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- Allergic to mathematics?
- The inner beauty of pure mathematics
- A journey with mathematics
- Staff room
The British General Election (May 1997) is an example of how simple mathematical ideas help in understanding information that involves numbers.
Here is an experiment that you can easily do yourself to test Bernoulli's equation. There are also 2 questions and answers.
After 5,000 years, the game of Nine Men's Morris has succumbed to the power of modern computing, plus other recent mathematical discoveries in the world of games.
We talk to Tim Pilkington, a keen basketball player, who has a joint honours BSc in Maths, Physical Education and Sports Science from Loughborough University. Tim has worked as a mathematics teacher and is now working as an accountant.
The mathematics underlying today's complex telephone networks is still based on his work. Erlang was the first person to study the problem of telephone networks.