Danny Brown: How about physically making something?
Danny Brown is a mathematics teacher at Thomas Tallis School in Greenwich. He talks about: is he a "mathematician"? (at time 0:21) support and profess...
Being a Professional Mathematician
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Audio files from the project Being a Professional Mathematician, which produced worksheets and other resources for the undergraduate mathematics curriculum. www.beingamathematician.org
Nira Chamberlain: "You don't need anybody’s permission to be a great mathematician"
Nira Chamberlain is a mathematical modelling consultant. He talks about: His career (at time 0:10) The skills mathematical consultants need (1:37) Pro...
Rosemary Dyson: "A very very very applied mathematician"
Rosemary Dyson is a Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the University of Birmingham and part of the Systems Science for Health initiative. She applies...
Peter Furness: I have "Mathematician" on my business card
Peter Furness, consultant in decision analytics, modelling and data mining, talks about his career. He discusses: how he describes himself (at time 0:...
Jay Jobanputra: "A mathematician will always stand out"
Jay Jobanputra talks about his career as a mathematician in the investment banking sector in the UK and abroad. He now works part-time in order to hav...
Sue Merchant: "An ability to empathise with the client"
Sue Merchant is an independent management consultant. She is a past President of the Operational Research Society and Vice-President elect of the Inte...
Mason Porter: "I don't usually prove theorems"
Mason Porter is an applied mathematician who is a University Lecturer and Tutor at the University of Oxford. He talks about his work (at time 0:09) be...
Gwyneth Stallard: "That moment when suddenly things fit together"
Gwyneth Stallard is Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University. She talks about defining her profession (at time 0:29) teaching at the Open ...
Thomas Harriot (1560 - 1621)
Jackie Stedall talks about Thomas Harriot, a notable mathematician who lived in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. She talks about Ha...
Emilie du Chatelet: "A normal woman and a good scientist"
Patricia Fara, historian of science at the University of Cambridge, talks about Emilie du Chatelet (1706 - 1749), mathematician, translator and popula...