Events for Wednesday 14th October 2009
3,4,5 and Pythagoras- Dr Brendan McCann WIT
A workshop exploring how Pythagoras theorem is useful in today’s world
Cork: Andrew Jeffrey, Blackrock Castle - Booked Out -
Professional magician, former maths teacher and school vice-principal, Andrew Jeffrey has been brought back again this year as his "Magic of Maths" show proved so popular last year.
DIT - Interactive demonstrations and talks
A fair of interactive stands with DIT students showing off what's fun and cool in Maths, accompanied by two talks highlighting how maths can be fun, interesting and relevant to our lives with DIT lecturers Maev Maguire and Joe Condon
Mathematical Circus @ Maynooth
The magic of mathematics, by Fiacre O’Cairbre; Juggling by numbers, by Dr. Carl Bracken; A mathematical gig: the connections between mathematics and music, by Dr. Bob Lawlor.
Murderous Maths with Kjartan Poskitt @ DCU
Kjartan has written over 50 books, including stage musicals, puzzles, codes, astronomy, magic and most recently his new "Urgum the Axeman" novels
Probability and Making Bad Decisions. Dr Padraig Kirwan, WIT
Probability is an area of Mathematics that stemmed from a question about throwing two dice. It is frequently applied to real-life situations in a bad way. In this talk we will examine examples of this, such as the O.J. Simpson murder trial and the explosion of the Space Shuttle in 1986
Skeptics Maths - Maths and the Media - an equation for confusion
Mathematicians seem resigned to constantly seeing mathematics being mis-used in the media. Most obviously, there are the stupid equations that newspapers seem to love, including the Sun's brilliant formula that had Britney Spears' breasts as the subject. But there are also the more serious cases of misleading mathematics that confuse people and potentially put their health at risk. Matt Parker will take a look at the best and the worst of media mathematics and see if there is anything that irate Mathematicians can do about it.
"Understanding prime numbers through differentiation and quadratic functions
Prime numbers been studied since ancient times- this talk will explore prime numbers.
William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) Ireland's greatest mathematician
Dr Fiacre O’Cairbre NUI Maynooth for the South Fingal Heritage Society