54 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd

Episode 54. Sarah Shepherd joins me to look over some recent maths news. Topics include digits of pi, how mathematicians think, maths books, Marcus du Sautoy OBE, the Mandelbulb, Islamic maths at the Science Museum, news about the numbers on maths degrees and maths teacher training, gender in maths, creative teaching approaches, autonomous unicycles, what fungus-like slime says about wireless communications and a little satire. For more info and show notes, including links to all stories mentioned visit

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54 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd is an episode from Travels in a Mathematical World by Peter Rowlett.

This episode is 16:24 long.

This episode was published on Feb 14, 2010.

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