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Dr Schonlieb is a Reader in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Head of the Cambridge Image Analysis group at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge.
Professor of Financial Mathematics within the Mathematics Department at the King's College London, William Shaw received his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Oxford, following which he held post-doctoral positions at the University of Cambridge and M.I.T. He then
Where do we get our mathematical symbols from? Why is the set of integers called ℤ ? When was the equals sign first used? How about zero? Good notation tends to catch on quickly, whereas bad notation can obscure beautiful theory.
Humans use computers to do gigantic calculations which would be impossible to do by hand – for example, weather prediction. But could an AI go beyond that and come up with a proof of a theorem which has stumped humankind?
Rob Eastaway is best known as the author of several bestselling popular maths books, including Why Do Buses Come in Threes? and Maths On the Back of an Envelope. With Mike Askew, he wrote Maths for Mums & Dads, a