Author: Eugene Kidwell

Tue 12 Feb 2019Mathematics Today

I recently stumbled across fertility stopping rules; fertility stopping or son-targeting means that a couple cease having children when (usually) […]

Tue 12 Feb 2019Mathematics Today

How pleasing to read some poetry in December’s issue! Mathematicians are famed for their all-round talents and many excel at […]

Tue 12 Feb 2019Mathematics Today

Inspired by the homage to farm machinery made famous by the West Country band the Wurzels, Alan Champneys considers the […]

Tue 12 Feb 2019Mathematics Today

The 1st IMA Conference on Knowledge Exchange was held on 3-4 December 2018 at Aston Conference Centre. The meeting, which […]

Tue 12 Feb 2019Mathematics Today

I have been a trainee Maths Teacher for one half-term. Before that, I was a lawyer, spending the last 19 […]

Event Date: Wed 12 Jun 2019South West and Wales

My Mathematics Bucket List, The IMA Presidential Address by Professor Alistair Fitt Abstract As one grows older, one can enjoy the […]

Fri 1 Feb 2019Puzzles

Dear Dr Maths, At a recent fundraising event I attended there was an activity to guess the number of sweets in the jar. Is there a mathematical way to improve your chance of being correct?

Event Date: Thu 31 Jan 2019Midlands

Mathematics, Metamaterials and Meteorites, a talk by Professor David Abrahams (Director, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences) Abstract This talk is a […]

Tue 8 Jan 2019PuzzlesAfter a successful Valentine’s date, a colleague was feeling particularly generous and gave the Commercial Science team a clock as [...]

Sun 23 Dec 2018PuzzlesThere are three lighthouses on three neighbouring islands. The first one flashes its light for 3 seconds, then turns it [...]