Women Pioneers of Mathematics This month is Women in History Month, and 8th March was International Women’s Day. In celebration of all the brilliant women who’ve made mathematics what it is, here’s a celebration of mathematical firsts – pioneers … 25. Mar 2020 | By Katie Steckles | 4 comments
How Data Science Can Help Us Understand (and Fight) Wildfires The 2019-2020 Australian wildfires burned an estimated 186,000 square kilometers (72,000 square miles), ravaging the country and killing up to 1 billion animals. In California, the 2019 wildfire season ravaged over 1,000 square kilometers, often … 17. Mar 2020 | By Andrei Mihai | 0 comments
John Hopcroft on the teaching of today and tomorrow John Hopcroft is an ACM A.M Turing Award laureate, which he won in 1986 together with Robert E. Tarjan for fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures. He distinguished himself … 10. Mar 2020 | By Demian Goos | 1 comment
Picking and choosing In a post last April, I described some of the mathematics behind combinatorics – the branch of mathematics concerned with counting all the different ways to do something. Often, this kind of maths appears in … 02. Mar 2020 | By Katie Steckles | 7 comments
