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- Latest news
- Browse with Plus
- Mathematical moments
- Live maths
- The Plus new writers award

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Latest news

Bridges: mathematical connections in art and music - Mathematicians and 
artists mingle in London. 
http://plus.maths.org/latestnews/may-aug06/bridges/index.html

Help defeat Malaria in Africa - Take part in research from home, and help 
defeat malaria with [log in to unmask] 
http://plus.maths.org/latestnews/may-aug06/africa/index.html

Plus ... more news from the world of maths

How to board an airplane relatively fast
http://www.plus.maths.org/latestnews/jan-apr05/plusmore35/index.html#imaging

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Browse with Plus

If you enjoyed the article on Bridges in Plus news, you can find some
fantastic links to mathematical art at this address:

http://www.sckans.edu/~bridges/Museum.html

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Mathematical moments

George Gabriel Stokes
Born: 13 Aug 1819 in Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland
Died: 1 Feb 1903 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

One of the foremost mathematicians of the 19th century, George Stokes was
responsible for significant advancements in the fields of fluid dynamics
and optics. Stokes studied for his degree at Pembroke College Cambridge
where he graduated as senior wrangler (the mathematics undergraduate who
attains the highest mark in their final year) and first Smith's Prizeman.
Following this, Stokes was immediately granted a fellowship from Pembroke.

He also held several other notable positions during his life including
the Lucasian professorship of mathematics. He also represented the
University of Cambridge in parliament and was president of the Royal
Society for which he had previously been the secretary. Only one person had
previously held all three of these positions, Sir Isaac Newton.

Stokes earliest work, 'On the steady motion of incompressible fluids' was 
published in 1842. Following this, he focussed on deriving the equations 
governing the internal friction for fluids in motion. Stokes also studied 
the motion of small pendulums in fluids which led him to publish his laws 
of viscosity in 1851.

However his work was not constrained to fluids and he produced many results 
in the field of optics. He published works on the aberration and 
diffraction of light as well as describing and explaining the phenomenon of 
fluorescence.

Stokes died at the age of 84 in Cambridge only a year after being elected
as master of Pembroke College.



To find out more read Stokes' biography on the MacTutor history of maths
site: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Stokes.html

and on the Notable Names Database http://www.nndb.com/people/131/000097837/

Find out more about the famous Navier-Stokes equations with these Plus
articles:

http://plus.maths.org/issue25/features/budd/index-gifd.html
http://plus.maths.org/issue1/turb/


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Live maths

The BA Festival of Science

The BA Festival of Science is one of the UK's biggest science festivals.
Annually it attracts around 400 of the best scientists and science
communicators from home and abroad who reveal the latest developments in
research to a general audience.

2006 will see the Festival visiting Norwich, hosted by Norwich Research
Park, from 2-9 September. For more information and ticket prices visit
http://www.the-ba.net/the-ba/Events/FestivalofScience/


Marcus du Sautoy will present a four part series on maths on Teachers' TV. 
The 15 minute episodes will run in September and October this year and can 
be downloaded from the teacher's TV website: 
http://www.teachers.tv/subjectBlockProgramme.do?zoneId=2&transmissionProgrammeId=382628 
http://www.teachers.tv/subjectBlockProgramme.do?zoneId=2&transmissionProgrammeId=382625 
http://www.teachers.tv/subjectBlockProgramme.do?zoneId=2&transmissionProgrammeId=382626 
http://www.teachers.tv/subjectBlockProgramme.do?zoneId=2&transmissionProgrammeId=382613


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The Plus new writers award - maths is the language of the universe, so what
have you got to say?

The Plus new writers award is still open for entries. Try your hand at
being a Plus author, and you could get published in the December issue and
even win an iPod. Competition closes September 30th 2006, for more details
visit http://plus.maths.org/competition.

Happy reading from the Plus team!

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