This is a guest post I wrote for the IMA Blog – Dr. Darren Dancey: "Maths – There's an App For That!" This North West regional talk was delivered by Manchester Metropolitan University's Computer Science lecturer Darren Dancey, whose teaching specialisms include programming and artificial...
This post is one of a series of articles adapted from my university dissertation on data visualisation — see the rest of the series. Pi (π), the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, is a mathematical phenomenon. It is found in a massive variety of fields such as statistics, geometry,...
This post is one of a series of articles adapted from my university dissertation on data visualisation — see the rest of the series. For systems of 3 ODEs (Ordinary Differential Equations), there are two ways of plotting the results of outcomes given initial conditions. The first is to plot each of...
This post is one of a series of articles adapted from my university dissertation on data visualisation — see the rest of the series. Limit cycles are interesting systems whereby the solution to a set of differential equations produces a phase portrait whose directional flow enters a cycle and gets...
This post is one of a series of articles adapted from my university dissertation on data visualisation — see the rest of the series. The single pendulum is a simple system to model, as it is simply the force of the weight of the bob acting with respect to gravity: Simple gravity pendulum diagram,...
This post is one of a series of articles adapted from my university dissertation on data visualisation — see the rest of the series. School children are taught the order of the powers of ten the same way they are taught to count to ten, say the alphabet or recite their times tables. There is barely...
This is an extended version of an article I wrote for MSOR Connections magazine – which you can read online During the final year of my combined honours degree in Mathematics and Computing at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) I received an invitation to a two-day Student Mathematical...
I'm supposed to be revising for my final year exams, and the Rubik's Cube isn't enough of a distraction, apparently, so I've taken up the crafty mathsy hobby of constructing 3D fractals. The Menger Sponge is a cube with a hole in the middle, made up of smaller cubes, each with a hole in the middle....
I'm now at the end of my third week of university. I've moved away from home and now live in halls of residence in Manchester, which is a completely new experience for me. I can cook and generally fend for myself but it's still very different from being at home. I'm having a wicked time out...
Pi – An irrational constant used to represent the ratio between a circle's circumference and its diameter, symbolised by the greek letter Pi, approximately 3.14159265358979323846264338327 (not rounded) Pi Day – A geek holiday held to celebrate the mathematical constant Pi, observed on March...
