Mathematics Today
Mathematics Today is the membership publication of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
Issued six times a year, this general interest mathematics publication provides articles, reports, reviews and news for mathematicians.
Current features and articles
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 In his Autumn Statement, the Chancellor announced that £600 million would be spent on 100 new free schools, including elite maths colleges for 16-to-18 year olds. Twelve free schools specialising in mathematics, linked closely to university mathematics departments, are expected to have opened by the end of this Parliament in 2015. This announcement received substantial press coverage, including the following sound-bites which appeared in the Daily Mail. |
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A World-class Mathematics Education for all our Young People |
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| The announcement, in January 2009, that Carol Vorderman was to advise David Cameron and Michael Gove on how mathematics education could be improved in England was treated with some scepticism among the mathematics community. Was this, people wondered, just an exercise in using celebrity culture to give politicians a few sound-bites? | |
Interview with Robert MacKay |
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 Professor Robert MacKay FRS CMath FIMA FInstP is the Director of Mathematical Interdisciplinary Research and Director of the Centre for Complexity Science at the Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick. He took over as President of the IMA at the beginning of the year. He lists his research interests (I would say 'enthusiasms’) as Dynamical Systems, Variational Problems, Hamiltonian Dynamics, Renormalisation of dynamical systems. These he applies to Physics, Engineering, Chemistry, Biology, Economics... |
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 Not a lot is growing at the moment, but I have spiral eyes. I am like a character in an obsessive novel (think Danielewski, or Dan Brown if Danielewski is too obscure). I hunt for spirals in the hyacinths and think I find them – though the florets are passed their best and perhaps I see what I want to see. I seek them in the cyclamen stalks (no, probably not) and monitor the molehills (definitely not). I can’t wait for the pale blue muscari to appear in spring so I can count the round florets on their conical heads. |
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