May 2023 - Heidelberg Laureate Forum - SciLogs - Wissenschaftsblogs

The „Dismal” State of Mathematics Textbooks and How to Improve It

For most students, mathematics and computer science can be difficult, daunting subjects. That may be hard to grasp if you have dedicated your career to one of the two, but surveys from several countries show …

31. May 2023 | By Andrei Mihai | 6 comments

Komplexe Analysis und der harmonische Oszillator

Wozu kann man komplexe Funktionen gebrauchen? Und insbesondere die spezielle Sorte komplexer Funktionen, die ich Ihnen im vorletzten Beitrag vorgestellt habe, die holomorphen? Auf diese Frage, die in den Kommentaren dieses Beitrags intensiv gestellt wurde, …

24. May 2023 | By Christoph Pöppe | 17 comments

A Question of Curvature

People are often interested in mathematical ‘life hacks’ – ways they can use mathematics to make their life easier. For me a much more interesting conversation results when there is a hack people already know …

17. May 2023 | By Katie Steckles | 2 comments

Giving Back to the Community

This Spotlight shines on the deeply passionate computer scientist and alumna of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), Aderonke Busayo Sakpere from Nigeria.
We sat down with her to talk about two of her ongoing projects: “Kọ́Èdè”, an app to help early childhood learning of her native Yoruba language, as well as the Tech Girls Club, a mentorship program for young women in STEM that she founded in 2019. Read more

10. May 2023 | By Nikolas Mariani | 0 comments

Maths That Rings a Bell

If you have spent any time in the English countryside, you may have heard the sounds of bellringers merrily chiming from a nearby church tower – a peculiarly British pursuit in which, given a set of bells tuned to different notes and sufficiently skilled bellringers, a variety of tunes can be performed. But is there a mathematical aspect to bellringing too? Read more

03. May 2023 | By Katie Steckles | 1 comment