50 Visions of Mathematics

1 David Acheson: What's the problem with mathematics?; 2 Alan J. Aw: The mathematics of messages; 3 John D. Barrow: Decathlon: The art of scoring points; 4 Greg Bason: Queen Dido and the mathematics of the extreme; 5 David Berman: Can strings tie things together?; 6 Ken Bray: Grooves and knuckleballs; 7 Ellen Brooks-Pollock and Ken Eames: Pigs didn't fly but swine flu; 8 Chris Budd: Bill Tutte: Unsung Bletchley hero; 9 Chris Budd and Chris Sangwin: What's the use of a quadratic equation?; 10 Alan Champneys: Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme; 11 Carson C. Chow: The mathematics of obesity; 12 Tony Crilly: It's a small world really; 13 Graham Divall: How does mathematics help at a murder scene?; 14 Marcus du Sautoy: Mathematics: The language of the universe; 15 Richard Elwes: The troublesome geometry of CAT scanning; 16 Alistair Fitt: The mathematics of sports gambling; Pythagoras's Theorem: a2; 17 Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas: A conversation with Freeman Dyson; 18 Paul Glendinning: A glass of bubbly; 19 Julia Gog: The influenza virus: It's all in the packaging; 20 Derek Moulton and Alain Goriely: Mathematicians at the movies: Sherlock Holmes vs Professor Moriarty; 21 Thilo Gross: Solving the Bristol bridge problem; 22 David Hand: All ravens are black: Puzzles and paradoxes in probability and statistics; 23 Andreas Hinz and Marianne Freiberger: The Tower of Hanoi: Where mathematics meets psychology; 24 Philip Holmes: Career: A sample path; 25 Steve Humble: Sweets in the jar; 26 Lisa Jardine: Mary Cartwright; 27 Adam Jasko: The fallibility of mathematics; 28 Tom Korner: Anecdotes of Dr Barrow; 29 Adam Kucharski: Finding Apollo; 30 Mario Livio: The golden ratio in astronomy and astrophysics; 31 Peter Lynch: The high-power hypar; 32 Maarten McKubre-Jordens: This is not a carrot: Paraconsistent mathematics; 33 Alexander Masters and Simon Norton: The mystery of Groombridge Place; Pythagoras's Theorem: b2; 34 Yutaka Nishiyama: Mysterious number 6174; 35 Colva Roney-Dougal & Vince Vatter: Percolating possibilities; 36 Caroline Series: Milestones on a non-Euclidean journey; 37 Simon Singh: Simpson's rule; 38 David Spiegelhalter: Risking your life; 39 Ian Stewart: Networks and illusions; 40 Danielle Stretch: Emmy Noether: Against the odds; 41 Paul Taylor: Of catastrophes and creodes: How maths benefits from collaboration with other fields; 42 Rachel Thomas: Conic section hide and seek; 43 Ahmer Wadee: Sir James Lighthill: A life in waves; 44 Ahmer Wadee and Alan Champneys: Fail safe or fail dangerous; 45 Paul Williams: Leapfrogging into the future: How child's play is at the heart of weather and climate models; 46 Eddie Wilson: Motorway mathematics; 47 Phil Wilson: The philosophy of applied mathematics; 48 Thomas Woolley: Mighty Morphogenesis; 49 Andrew Wrigley: Called to the barcode; 50 Gunter Ziegler: Roughly fifty-fifty?; Pythagoras's Theorem: c2