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Julia is the David N. Moore Fellow in Mathematics, Director ofStudies in Mathematics at Queen’s College, Cambridge. Professor of Mathematical Biology in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.
Spinning things are strange. Why does a spinning top stand up? Why doesn't a rolling wheel fall over? How does a falling cat always manage to land on its feet? How can the Hubble Space Telescope turn around in space? How do ice-skaters spin so fast? Taking a look at gyroscopes, this lecture explores the common threads that link all spinning things. The law of Conservation of Angular Momentum is far more subtle than we may think and there are many counter-intuitive observations.
Dr Barrow-Green is Professor of Mathematics at the Open University. She specialises in the history of mathematics. She is a member of the Council of the London Mathematical Society and the Librarian for the society.
Luke Hodgkin has taught mathematics and its history at the universities of Warwick and Algiers, and most recently at King's College, London. He studied mathematics at Balliol College and St. John's College, Oxford, and is a former member of the
This event, jointly hosted with the British Society for the History of Mathematics, will focus upon the relationship between mathematics and money, from coinage through to cryptocurrencies.
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