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Looks at mathematics graduates, asking what they do, why they enjoy mathematics, what they can do with their degrees. Identifies careers for mathematics graduates; several maths graduates introduce their...
Investigates the idea of symmetry of three-dimensional objects and develops a strategy for counting the symmetries of the five so-called ‘Platonic solids’. This strategy is used to check the results for...
Modelling the mathematics of the art of juggling has led to the discovery of totally new throwing patterns.
A (17 min): Looks at how the curves known as conics arise in different contexts and at the specific properties that lead to ways of describing them mathematically. / (41 min): Examines isometric...
Support video for course MU120 - a compilation of six programmes. 1: Advises students on the effective use of video-based course materials. 2: Shows how, since World War 2, the situation of women who go out...
Support video for cours MU120 - a video compilation of seven programmes. [See synopses for individual programmes for details of content.]
Florence Nightingale made use of statistics in her hospital work during the Crimean war to show that hospital hygiene was so poor that the wounded were less likely to die from disease at the front than in...
Looks at ways of modelling spirals mathematically, focusing on three types: the helix, the Archimedian spiral in two and three dimensions, and the equiangular (or exponential) spiral.
Looks at how statistical techniques helped to find the cause of mysterious asthma attacks in Barcelona during the 1980s. Between 1981 and 1984 seven serious asthma outbreaks in adults were reported at...
Given that the use of symbolic language is not exclusive to mathematics, this programme looks at dancing and why and how notations, which are symbolic languages, are used to record and recreate dances....
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