I have recently become an editor of Plus Magazine,
a free, award winning online mathematics magazine that has articles
written by the world's great mathematicians and science communicators,
including Stephen Hawking and Marcus du Sautoy. This is why I have been
a bit slack on Mr Science...
This week's podcast is again from the York Science Festival, and the
interview is featured on an upcoming episode of the new Plus podcast.
I talk to Professor Chris Budd about all sorts of interesting maths
from Euler, Maths Communication, modelling Santa getting around the
world, how maths can save your life, climate modelling and how
mathematicians can pick up at parties. Professor Budd loves his maths!
If you like the maths podcast, get over to Plus and subscribe!
The mp3 can be found here
We have recently launched a writing competition.
The Plus new writers award is trying to find people who can bring
mathematics to life. The competition is open to new writers of any age
and from any background who can explain a mathematical topic or
application they think the world needs to know about. The winning
entries will be read by an international audience of over two hundred
thousand in the June 2008 issue of Plus, and the winners will receive
an iPod and signed copies of popular maths books by some of the best
science writers today, and a subscription to the journal Nature, kindly
donated by its publisher. The closing date is March 31st 2008.
The competition is kindly supported by the Maths, Stats and Operational Research Network, a Subject Centre of the Higher Education Academy, and the London Mathematical Society. More info can be found on the website
