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Travels in a Mathematical World is a mathematics (or maths or math, if you like) podcast by Peter Rowlett, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, featuring mathematicians talking about their work as well as features on maths history and maths news. Scroll down to access all previous episodes of the podcast and their show notes, or subscribe using the links below.
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Episode 36 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
3 July 2009
Episode 36. Sarah Shepherd joins me to look over some recent maths news. Topics include evolution of numeracy, electric fish, 'phantom' traffic jams, maths v. superstition, gender, Dara O'Briain, sporting mathematicians, maths teaching and the Royal Society Summer Science.
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Episode 35 - Terry Edwards, Chartered Mathematician
27 June 2009
Episode 35. As university students prepare to graduate I ask Terry Edwards about IMA Professional Development and Chartered Mathematician Status.
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Episode 34 - Eugenia Cheng, Category theory
21 June 2009
Episode 34. Dr. Eugenia Cheng from the University of Sheffield talks to me about what she likes about mathematics, her area of category theory and TheCatsters YouTube channel.
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Episode 33 - David Fearn, Magnetohydrodynamics
14 June 2009
Episode 33. Professor David Fearn of the University of Glasgow sat down with me and talked about the area of magnetohydrodynamics.
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Episode 32 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
6 June 2009
Episode 32. Sarah Shepherd joins me to look over some recent maths news. Topics include Wolfram|Alpha, mathematicians and the credit crunch, the Christopher Zeeman medal for Ian Stewart, six degrees of seperation, quantum computing, weather forecasting and mathematical films.
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Episode 31 - Matt Parker, Maths communication
30 May 2009
Episode 31. Matt Parker, a maths teacher, talks about his work communicating maths in ways that enthuse school students. Includes a live recording with funny gases - helium and sulfur hexafluoride - and a conversation covering maths in the simpsons, getting into teaching and the odds of winning the lottery.
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Episode 30 - History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw - Ramanujan
22 May 2009
Episode 30. In the regular Maths History series, Noel-Ann Bradshaw of the University of Greenwich and also Meetings Co-ordinator of the British Society for the History of Mathematics talks about Ramanujan.
N.B. Correction: In this episode Noel-Ann makes a slip of the tongue, saying "G.K. Hardy" which should be "G.H. Hardy". We're sorry!
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Episode 29 - Noel-Ann Bradshaw, Evolutionary algorithms for financial applications
16 May 2009
Episode 29. Noel-Ann Bradshaw of the University of Greenwich talks about her research using evolutionary algorithms for financial applications.
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Episode 28 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
10 May 2009
Episode 28. Sarah Shepherd joins me to look over some recent maths news.
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Episode 27 - Oliver Jensen, British Applied Mathematics Colloquium 2009
27 Apr 2009
Episode 27. Immediately following the British Applied Mathematics Colloquium (BAMC) 2009, I sat down with Professor Oliver Jensen of the University of Nottingham and Co-Chair of the BAMC for a retrospective on the conference and what work is current in applied mathematics.
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Episode 26 - Chris Budd, Confessions of an Industrial Mathematican
19 Apr 2009
Episode 26. Professor Chris Budd of the University of Bath spoke to me about his view of 21st Century maths, based on his article "Confessions of an Industrial Mathematican", written for Mathematics Today.
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Episode 25 - History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw - Fibonacci
10 Apr 2009
Episode 25. In the regular Maths History series, Noel-Ann Bradshaw of the University of Greenwich and also Meetings Co-ordinator of the British Society for the History of Mathematics talks about the life and works of Fibonacci.
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Episode 24 - John Sharp, Maths and Art
04 Apr 2009
John Sharp of the London Knowledge Lab talks about his work in mathematics and art.
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Episode 23 - Paul Shepherd, Decimation and Subdivision
29 Mar 2009
Episode 23. Dr. Paul Shepherd of the University of Bath speaks about two aspects of 3D modeling - decimation and subdivision. Paul also talks about what a mathematician can bring the world of engineering and architecture.
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Episode 22 - Mike Maher, Transport Modelling
22 Mar 2009
Episode 22. Mike Maher, Professor of the Mathematical Analysis of Transport Systems at the Institute for Transport Studies, Leeds University. Mike sat down with me at the University of Edinburgh and talked about his work in transport modelling.
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Episode 21 - History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw - Turing
14 Mar 2009
Episode 21. In the regular Maths History series, Noel-Ann Bradshaw of the University of Greenwich and also Meetings Co-ordinator of the British Society for the History of Mathematics talks about the life of Alan Turing.
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Episode 20 - Choi-Hong Lai, Fluid dynamics
8 Mar 2009
Episode 20. Choi-Hong Lai of the University of Greenwich talks through some applications in fluid dynamics.
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Episode 19 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
28 Feb 2009
Episode 19. Sarah Shepherd joins me to look over some recent maths news.
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Episode 18 - Jane Wess, Science Museum
23 Feb 2009
Episode 18. Jane Wess tells me about the mathematics collection at the Science Museum. This includes Napier's Bones and there is a video of Jane demonstrating Napier's Bones.
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Episode 17 - History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw - al-Kharazmi
16 Feb 2009
In the regular Maths History series, Noel-Ann Bradshaw of the University of Greenwich and also Meetings Co-ordinator of the British Society for the History of Mathematics talks about the life of al-Kharazmi.
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Episode 16 - Chris Bailey, Cutty Sark Restoration
6 Feb 2009
Episode 16. Professor Chris Bailey from the University of Greenwich talks about his work in using mathematics to predict the reliability and maintainability of real material structures and how this work is applied to projects including the conservation and restoration of the Cutty Sark.
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Episode 15 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
1 Feb 2009
Sarah Shepherd joins me to look over some recent maths news.
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Episode 14 - Paul Shepherd, Parametric Geometry Generation
24 January 2009
Episode 14. Paul Shepherd, a mathematician working in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Bath. He speaks about his work on architectural design using parametric models.
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Episode 13 - History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw - Florence Nightingale
17 Jan 2009
Episode 13. In the regular Maths History series, Noel-Ann Bradshaw of the University of Greenwich and also Meetings Co-ordinator of the British Society for the History of Mathematics talks about the life of Florence Nightingale.
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Episode 12 - Terry Lyons Stochastic Calculus
10 Jan 2009
Episode 12. Professor Terry Lyons of the University of Oxford talks about his area of Stochastic Analysis.
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Episode 11 - History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw - Euler
14 Dec 2008
Episode 11. In the regular Maths History series, Noel-Ann Bradshaw of the University of Greenwich and also Meetings Co-ordinator of the British Society for the History of Mathematics talks about the life of Leonhard Euler.
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Episode 10 - Adrian Bowyer (part 2)
6 Dec 2008
The second of two episodes in which Dr. Adrian Bowyer talks about some of the areas his career has taken him to.
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Episode 9 - Adrian Bowyer (part 1)
1 Dec 2008
The first of two episodes in which Dr. Adrian Bowyer talks about some of the areas his career has taken him to.
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Episode 8 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
23 Nov 2008
Sarah Shepherd joins me to look over some recent maths news.
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Episode 7 - Neil Goldwasser, Dyslexia Support and Adult Numeracy
16 Nov 2008
In this episode, Neil Goldwasser talks about his work as a dyslexia support tutor and adult numeracy tutor.
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Episode 6 - History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw - Galois
8 Nov 2008
Episode 6. In the regular Maths History series, Noel-Ann Bradshaw of the University of Greenwich and also Meetings Co-ordinator of the British Society for the History of Mathematics talks about the life of Evariste Galois.
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Episode 5 - Nira Chamberlain, Mathematical Modelling Consultant
1 Nov 2008
Episode 5. Nira Chamberlain works as a Mathematical Modelling Consultant and is a PhD student part time at the University of Portsmouth. I met Nira in Portsmouth and asked him to tell me about some interesting projects he had worked on.
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Episode 4 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
26 Oct 2008
Sarah Shepherd joins me to look over some recent maths news.
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Episode 3 - Dr. Joanna Hartley - Public Transport Modelling
19 Oct 2008
Episode 3. Dr. Joanna Hartley of Nottingham Trent University talks about her career from leaving university and the work she has done with Nottingham City Transport on public transport modelling.
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Episode 2 - History - Newton and Leibniz
11 Oct 2008
Episode 2. In the first of our Maths History series, Noel-Ann Bradshaw of the University of Greenwich and also Meetings Co-ordinator of the British Society for the History of Mathematics talks through a little of the history around Isaac Newton and Gottfried von Leibniz.
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Episode 1 - Professor Philip Maini, Oxford - Maths Biology
4 Oct 2008
Episode 1, in which Professor Philip Maini of the Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford, talks about the field of mathematical biology.
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Episode 0 - Prelude
11 Sep 2008
Episode 0, a brief prelude to the podcast proper.
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