Anything to do with my research or teaching
I spent an enjoyable day down in London on January 15th visiting the Tate Britain, and in particular the Muybridge exhibition which was due to finish the following day. The main reason for visiting was due to my ongoing interest in animal gaits (insects and other hexapods in particular), and the Muybridge animal locomotion photographs have been an inspiration for…
A quick series of comments, not designed to be a throrough summary of my experiences but more to reflect on the event. From the 15th to the 28th August 2010 the IGGY Summer U was held in Gaborone, Botswana, hosted by BACS (Botswana Accountancy College), and once again I was fortunate enough to be running a Mathematics course, a revised…
Much to my surprise, my mum has turned out to be a budding mathematician and for dinner on Christmas Eve we were presented with Romanesco Broccoli! I had forgotten what a beautiful vegetable it was (the last one I’d seen I had bought from Tesco for a lecture on fractals about 10 years ago). For anyone of a mathematical persuasion…
It has long been a problem that one of the biggest obstacles to doing mathematics in Second Life was the inability to write equations. Of course, there is a counter argument that this forces you to be more imaginative in finding ways to get the same ideas across and there is a huge amount to say about the benefits of…
