Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Kent
Joined February 2009
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This vehicle was parked blocking 2 accessible bays. Driver refused to move and didn’t apologise. This is in a supermarket car park when it was open.
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Today I was asked by an MDPI journal to review a manuscript written by two members of my own department! I've declined due to "conflict of interest" but also because I refuse to review for predatory publishers such as MDPI.
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This is Colonel Nicole Malachowski. A 21-year veteran of the Air Force, she is the first woman to fly with the Thunderbirds and flew 26 missions in Iraq. Trump has removed all mention of her from federal websites.
RETWEET if you stand with @RealMalachowski against Trump!
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Oh dear, read the update: funding for #AcadMathSci withdrawn. We’ll have to think of more creative ways to do this. @campaignmathsci @LondMathSoc @IMAmaths @RoyalStatSoc
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Shame on the @iocmedia for allowing women to be beaten up by men as a sport. RT if you agree #ShameOnTheIOC
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Nice article by @standupmaths on the five best maths books, feat. @wwmgt @FryRsquared @SLSingh @robeastaway, Jeremy Wyndham and @CCriadoPerez
theguardian.com/books/articl…
Today Liz saw a snake in the pond in our garden. Naturally it had to be an adder as we’re mathematicians!
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Obviously, teaching mathematics (which Lehrer chose to do) is just some obscure profession not worthy of the finer minds. Who knew?
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This #May12, revisit the @BBCInOurTime episode on Emmy Noether, discussing the ideas and life of one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century.
Feat. Colva Roney Dougal, David Berman and Elizabeth Mansfield
#WomenInMaths #May12WIM
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00025b…
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More people watched the Lionesses’ victory over the Republic of Ireland on ITV1 than the combined audience for Arsenal and Manchester City’s Champions League games last night.
England’s game watched by an average of 1,479,000 viewers while Arsenal’s was 617,000 and City 685,000.
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The distribution of zeros in Vorob'ev-Yablonski polynomials Qn(x), which provide rational solutions of the classical #Painleve II equation, is truly fascinating. Zeros are simple and form a triangular pattern (@peteraclarkson and E Mansfield dx.doi.org/10.1088/0951-7715…)
Totally agree!
Totally disagree with Seb Coe re grass roots sport. Girls and women are entitled to fairness at all levels of sport.
But certainly agree with this:
'if you’re being realistic about it a third category is still a male category.”'
Exactly so. telegraph.co.uk/athletics/20…
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If junior doctors are ‘apprentice doctors’ or ‘doctors in training’ then surely backbench MPs are ‘apprentice MPs’ or ‘MPs in training’ so should be paid less since they haven’t done several years study
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Women’s sports is not the place for mediocre male athletes who compete as women. Period.
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So @EnglandFootball has more than 50 males taking places from females in the women’s game. @ECB_cricket & Table tennis discriminate against their female athletes with just SELF ID of males stealing places just like park run, a disgraceful lack of fair opportunities for females
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I met someone at a party who talked a lot about finding their passion. I told her that mathematics was my passion. She asked if I ever sought help for that.
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Rogue waves were once the stuff of sailing legend. Today, we know that they’re a mathematical reality.
Listen to the newest episode of The Joy of Why, a Quanta podcast hosted by @StevenStrogatz: listen.quantamagazine.org/jo…
Or read the transcript ⬇
quantamagazine.org/what-caus…
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When you walk into the ladies’ room and discover that your hotel is part of the Hilbert franchise
ALT A shiny, marble-floored bathroom with mirrors set up so that it looks like the stalls extend off into the infinite distance. I’m standing to the side taking a photo with my phone, wearing a black sweater, jeans, and a white mask.