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motivate

Schools contribute to Cambridge research project

through a Motivate long project 8th Jul 2008 Read more.

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More movies and maths

Maths in the movies is obviously in vogue these days.

The following video comes from Triple J in Australia, and is a nice summation of how maths has been used as a tool for plot development over the years.

Thanks to Marc Fennell, the host of the show, for the permissions.

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nrich

Stage 4::[problem*] Counting Fish

I need a figure for the fish population in a lake, how does it help to catch and mark 40 fish ? Read more.

plus

Issue 47 out now!

Issue 47 of Plus is our biggest issue ever and a mathematical showcase! Not only are we bringing you the best young writing talent with the winners of the Plus new writers award, but we are overloaded with features about the ways maths influences and shapes our lives. We investigate the overlap between the arts and maths, find out why mathematicians are always portrayed as mad in the movies, and learn about the nature of infinity and of prime numbers. We also challenge 118118 with some mathematics, uncover the mathematics of surprise and respond to recent newspaper reports that maths is no longer relevant. There are also all our usual puzzle and teacher package.

And if you want to give you eyes a break, tune your ears into our podcast, with 3 new episodes out today.

More information:

  • Competition winners
  • The 2008 Plus new writers award has been run and won. This year's competition saw an exceptional standard of writing. The winning entries include biographies of two of the greatest mathematicians of the last 100 years, as well as articles on the mathematics of Google, ants that do maths, why we should (or should not) woo brunettes, the dangers of probing the infinite, and joining the mathematical mile-high club...

  • Plus Podcast
  • We are releasing 3 new podcast episodes in conjunction with the stories in this issue:

    1. Podcast 11, June 2008: Catching waves
      The magical Fourier transform;
    2. Podcast 10, June 2008: Maths in the Movies
      The maths film festival at the Edinburgh science festival;
    3. Plus Careers Podcast 2, June 2008: Exhibition Curator
      Exhibition design is not a career that the mathematically inclined tend to think about, let alone pursue.

    Happy reading from Plus!

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    nrich

    Stage 3::[problem*] Rotating triangle

    What happens to the perimeter of triangle ABC as the two smaller circles change size and roll around inside the bigger circle? Read more.

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