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Rupa Patel reflects to Plus on her work as a financial engineer
When we finally meet the Martians, John Conway believes they are going to want to talk mathematics.
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Abstract ideas better than real-world examples for maths learning
(01/05/2008)
Using sand to create new mathematical models
(24/04/2008)
Mathematics tackles an eternal question
Podcast 8, April 2008: Codes and codebreaking - the Enigma machine
This issue's teacher package brings together all Plus articles on probability and statistics, exploring anything from maths in the dock to games of chance. It also has some handy links to related problems on our sister site NRICH. |
Complex numbers — what are they, how do they work and what do they have to do with computer-generated movies, fractals and chaos? This teacher package brings together all Plus articles on complex numbers and gives some handy links to related problems on our sister site NRICH. |
The flocking behaviour of birds, the spread of diseases and the Cuban missile crisis — all of these and much more can be modelled mathematically. In our second teacher package we bring together all Plus articles on mathematical modelling, ready for use in classroom discussions or students projects. |
One thing that will never change is the fact that the world is constantly changing, and differential equations are the way we mathematically describe the changing world around us. In our first Teacher package we bring together all the material on Plus that deals with differential equations, including applications in biology, physics, finance, and even football! |
