Maths And Stats Blogs & Blog Posts
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- Ep 116: Terence Tao and Prime Numbers by The Mr Science Show on Oct 19, 2009
Terence Tao is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics, UCLA and one of Australia's most acclaimed mathematicians. Indeed, he is arguably the world's greatest living mathematician. In 2006, he was awarded a Fields Medal, which is the top prize a...
- A sorry saga - the crumbling cookie by The Mr Science Show on Sep 18, 2009
This week saw the publication of a story that "more than half of all Britons have been injured by biscuits." The story received plenty of coverage in the British national press, and if true, is surely one of the UK’s most pressing Occupational He...
- Stats in the media by The Mr Science Show on Sep 3, 2009
I love to see statistics in the media. This week there were a couple of stories that caught my eye: Town hall bans staff from using Facebook after they each waste 572 hours in ONE month.I found this article courtesy of the excellent science blog, The...
- This makes me want to count! by The Mr Science Show on Aug 11, 2009
If it were possible that Feist could get any cuter, here it is. In this clip, she sings her song 1234 with the cast of Sesame Street. Brilliant - surely this will get the next generation into mathematics!Oh why not, here's one more! This is Sesame St...
- Correlation of the Week: Eclipses and the economy by The Mr Science Show on Jul 24, 2009
In the paper Dark Omens in the Sky: Do Superstitious Beliefs Affect Investment Decisions?, Gabriele Lepori from Copenhagen Business School has correlated the occurrence of solar and lunar eclipses with four American stock indices: the Dow Jones Indus...
- Sumo vs Chess - how their ranking systems work by The Mr Science Show on Jun 14, 2009
At the very heart of sport is a fierce battle in which the combatants strive to outwit and outplay each other. Each thrust is matched by a parry and in the end, there can only be one winner. The rules of each sport dictate how that winner is determin...
- Ep 107: Ranking Cricketers by The Mr Science Show on Jun 3, 2009
Cricket is one of the world's most statistical sports, and mathematicians in cricket-loving nations love nothing more than delving into the minutiae of the numbers and diving into averages, strike-rates and custom-made measures of batting and bowling...
