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Where should you stand in order to photograph the restored four chimneys of Battersea power station equally spaced along the skyline? - The answer will take us to the heart of the mathematical field of projective geometry.
Characters such as Shrek are actually a collection of triangles and other mathematical objects, demonstrating the role of mathematics in the creation of movies.
Doctors’ careers can be built on publication rates and citations. Medical journals prefer positive results. It is not surprising that scientific fraud occurs, sometimes causing catastrophic damage to innocent patients and others. what can be done?
Information plays a huge role in the modern world, with vast amounts of data literally at our finger tips. The Internet is leading to an ever-increasing amount of data, leading to the ‘challenge of Big Data’.
From Leonardo da Vinci to the Brothers Grimm our fascination with hair has endured in art and science. This talk will cover the mathematics involved, focusing on the important historical developments of elasticity theory due to Euler and Bernoulli.
This year’s tercentenary of the death of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz puts Leibniz in the limelight - which is deserving both because of his involvement in challenging aspects of mathematics as well as his friendly diplomacy towards other mathematicians. Dr Snezana Lawrence takes up the theme of spirals and the work of Archimedes.
Examples of disease as shown in artworks will be examined, from the medical and surgical point of view as well as the historical and artistic ones, particularly visual loss as portrayed by artists from pre-historic times.
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