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A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA. Peter Rowlett in Nottingham calls Samuel Hansen in Las Vegas and the pair chat about math and maths that has been in the news, that they've noticed and that has happened to them.
Stories and web pages we talked about:
Martin Gardner
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/may/27/martin-gardner-obituary
http://timesonline.typepad.com/science/2010/05/a-tribute-to-martin-gardn...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/science/20tier.html
Honeybees: 3D images reveal life inside a live hive
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8682000/8682842.stm
Detecting Landmines
http://www.whydomath.org/node/tomography/landmine-wires.html
On average, there are as many prime numbers for which the sum of decimal digits is even as prime numbers for which it is odd.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100512172533.htm
http://www2.cnrs.fr/en/1732.htm
LOGICOMIX
http://www.logicomix.com/
Quite interesting blog post
http://travelsinamathematicalworld.blogspot.com/2008/11/quite-interestin...
Abel prize collected
http://www.abelprisen.no/en/prisvinnere/2010/
Three skills journalists should acquire...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/jun/03/journalism-educat...
Metric Mania
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/magazine/16FOB-WWLN-t.html
Running The Numbers For The World Cup
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127495657
Global Average Temperature Vs. Number of Pirates
http://www.venganza.org/images/PiratesVsTemp.png
CBI predicts skilled worker gap as recovery takes hold
http://www.cbi.org.uk/ndbs/press.nsf/0363c1f07c6ca12a8025671c00381cc7/83...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/10118517.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/may/18/skills-shortage-worsens
Mental Calculation World Cup 2010
http://www.recordholders.org/en/events/worldcup/2010/index.html
Samuel Johnson prize shortlist announced
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/samuel-johnso...
Proof math is beautiful tumblr
http://proofmathisbeautiful.tumblr.com/
MoMath Twitter Contest
http://momath.org/about/love-math/
Twitter search for #mathisfun
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23mathisfun
Got any ideas for Maths Careers?
UK people under 20 http://www.mathscareers.org.uk/viewitem.cfm?cit_id=383007 / US people email samuel@acmescience.com
What's happened to us this week?
Samuel interviewed me at: http://media.libsyn.com/media/sccmath/ep18rowlett.mp3
Our plans for the next week
How to talk maths in public: http://www.ima.org.uk/Conferences/public_engagement/index.html
Edmund Harriss Why do shapes fill space?: http://www.tilings.org.uk/shapes/
World cup: http://www.fifa.com/
How can people get in touch?
Samuel:
samuel@acmescience.com
http://samuelhansen.com
http://acmescience.com
http://twitter.com/Samuel_Hansen
Peter:
podcast@peterrowlett.net
http://peterrowlett.net
http://twitter.com/peterrowlett
