Simon Singh @SLSingh
Author of The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets, Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book, Big Bang & Trick or Treatment? simonsingh.net London Joined February 2009-
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Apparently teqball could be in a future Olympics. Non-Euclidean football ping pong youtube.com/watch?v=i2MCl2…
COME AND WORK WITH OUR AMAZING PEOPLE
COME AND WORK WITH OUR AMAZING PEOPLE
Get your skates on for tonight's talk, 7:30 Banshee, with @MrMMarsh facebook.com/share/2PofPaEz…
Very proud and excited to see Mrs Singh ( @tweeter_anita ) pick up her Honorary Doctorate from the University of London ... along with hundreds of fresh new graduates. Much deserved.
I have created a new variation of the famous Beuchet Chair illusion! Details here richardwiseman.wordpress.com/2024/04/29/new… with thanks to @KPUNews
Super excited about new book by Matt Parker (@standupmaths) - the niftily titled Love Triangle. You can order in the usual ways. But for a limited edition dust jacket and personally signed & numbered copy, here’s the link: mathsgear.co.uk/products/love-…
The best professional decision I ever made was to reach out to @EmathsUK. As well as being credible, he has this unique ability to communicate home truths with kindness and candour in equal measure. And then offer all the right support to help make things better. Get in touch
The best professional decision I ever made was to reach out to @EmathsUK. As well as being credible, he has this unique ability to communicate home truths with kindness and candour in equal measure. And then offer all the right support to help make things better. Get in touch
Complaint upheld about Dragon's Den WRT crazy alt med product ... "this was materially misleading and not consistent with the BBC’s standards of accuracy." bbc.co.uk/contact/ecu/dr…
The W boson, central to our understanding of the weak nuclear force was discovered 40 years ago @CERN. A @BBC documentary "The Geneva Event" follows engineers and physicists from the UA1 and UA2 experiments from 1978 to 1983 #fromTheArchives videos.cern.ch/record/1004828
Free webinars on our Parallel website for kids taking next week's @UKMathsTrust Junior Maths Challenge, todat & Sunday at 5pm. More info at parallel.org.uk/circles You don't need a Parallel account, but logging lets you answer polls + chat to the tutor (the great @fjmubeen )
🎉Did we do it?... We did it!🎉 The best reviewed show in West End history has officially become a double winner of Best New Musical tonight at the @OlivierAwards! Boy oh boy, this is glitzy indeed!!!✨🤯
Kevin, thanks for plugging our Parallelograms. Free content for ages 10 to 16. And, of course, Kevin has lots of great paid courses and free content at linktr.ee/mathsaurus - definitely worth exploring.
Kevin, thanks for plugging our Parallelograms. Free content for ages 10 to 16. And, of course, Kevin has lots of great paid courses and free content at linktr.ee/mathsaurus - definitely worth exploring.
One of my students yesterday was telling me how much they enjoy @SLSingh's Parallelograms - these are free weekly math challenges with 15-30 minutes of fun maths, including a lot of great story, context and history etc. too! Actually, this has happened quite a few times with…
Great new book on parasychology by@chriscfrench out now. The title makes it sounds like a book that Gillian McKeith would write.
All students up to the age of 18 are invited to submit their best Polypad creations by 17 May 2024,
All students up to the age of 18 are invited to submit their best Polypad creations by 17 May 2024,
People have used Polypad to create beautiful pieces of artwork, music, games, puzzles, visualisations of mathematical concepts, and much more. They want to see what else you can do! Prizes and age categories at polypad.amplify.com/contest
still 40 places left for this morning ... starting at 10am.
still 40 places left for this morning ... starting at 10am.
Maths teachers, do you have kids sitting UKMT Olympiad papers on Thursday (or any keen teens). I am running two zoom webinars (100 places each) offering top tips on how to do well. They can register via: Sunday 10am us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Monday 8pm us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
Terrific news. Hugely deserved. A celebration of akward genius. Full-frontal nerdity. If you can afford to treat yourself, Monday £40 for front row, £20 for standing. Declaration of interest ... I put some ££ into getting this to the West End because it was so bloody brilliant.
Terrific news. Hugely deserved. A celebration of akward genius. Full-frontal nerdity. If you can afford to treat yourself, Monday £40 for front row, £20 for standing. Declaration of interest ... I put some ££ into getting this to the West End because it was so bloody brilliant.
🎉Attention!🎉 Operation Mincemeat has earned 6‼️ @OlivierAwards nominations! Shiny tuxedos at the ready!🤵✨ #OlivierAwards #OperationMincemeat
Dr Adam Rutherford @AdamRutherford
167K Followers 3K Following Back off man, I'm a scientist. President of @Humanists_UK Lecturer in Genetics @UCL Genetics, race, eugenics, history of science, movies, books, cricket, +–=÷×
Jim Al-Khalili @jimalkhalili
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Matt Parker @standupmaths
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Colin Hegarty @hegartymaths
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Royal Institution @Ri_Science
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Dean Burnett (@Garwbo.. @garwboy
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Chris Smith MBE @aap03102
11K Followers 95 Following I'm that Maths Newsletter guy. Scottish Teacher of the Year 2018. 25% of the BBC’s ‘Family Brain Games’ winning team. Living for Jesus. Oh,I quite like π.
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Ayliean @Ayliean
18K Followers 854 Following Mathemactivist and Craftamatician, constantly trying to unleash the beauty of Maths for all to see! Also a tortoise lover. (she/her)
Tim Harford @TimHarford
198K Followers 1K Following Author How To Make The World Add Up (UK) / The Data Detective (US). Cautionary Tales podcast. Undercover Economist at the FT. BBC More or Less. Views my own.
Tom Chivers @TomChivers
58K Followers 1K Following "Far too nice to be a journalist": Terry Pratchett. Lead writer, Flagship. Semafor. chiversthomas(a)gmail. Third book, Everything is Predictable, out April
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451K Followers 3K Following Prof of EBM @UniOxford, author, Bad Science, more. I run https://t.co/NsF4BBoZ5V making tools+papers from data https://t.co/v6679t19rv https://t.co/bGysxEAgnn
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SMC @scottishmaths
3K Followers 203 Following The objective of the Scottish Mathematical Council is to foster improvements in mathematical education in Scotland. Scottish charity SC046876.
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The math of uncontrolled growth is frightening. The bacterium E. coli divides every 20 minutes. If it had limitless resources, after only 36 hours a 1-foot deep layer of bacteria would cover the entire surface of the Earth.
When the surface of a plate is vibrated, regions of maximum and minimum displacement are made visible in a thin coating of particles, like sand. The figures thus obtained are designated by the name of "Chladni figures". [📹 Steve Spangler] x.com/xudong1966/sta…
The window display at Ginza Maison Hermès is a theatrical stage in the midst of Tokio. This was made by Euphrates. If the umbrella were a perfectly straight line, the curve in the cardboard would be one branch of a hyperbola
Wally Wallington demonstrated how a single person can manipulate massive monoliths, or how they could have been moved in ancient times. He claims that a pyramid could be completed using primitive tools in 25-year with only 520 workers.
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Did you know? You can use Fibonacci numbers to roughly convert miles into km and viceversa. If you need to convert from km to miles, you just need to find the preceding Fibonacci number. Why? There are 1.609 km in a mile, very close to the Golden Ratio, derived by dividing…
Is it possilble to sail from India to the USA in a straight line? Yes, provided you know what's a geodesic, or the shortest path (arc) between two points on a sphere, analog to a "straight line" on a plane. [🎞️ maptravelers]
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Ikigai (生き甲斐) is a Japanese concept referring to something that gives a person a sense of purpose, a reason for living. Japanese have basically a word for any concept that in other languages require lots of words (except German, obviously). The term compounds two Japanese…
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