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Latest news from Plus magazine! - http://plus.maths.org In this newsletter: - Latest news - Browse with Plus - Mathematical moments ********** Latest news from Plus Ripped off at the beach - For the first time, scientists solve the equations to understand how flash rips are formed. http://plus.maths.org/latestnews/may-aug04/rips/index.html Maths on the wall - The beautiful "Maths goes Underground" posters are back by popular demand. http://plus.maths.org/latestnews/may-aug04/posters/index.html ********** Browse with Plus NOISE (New Outlooks in Science and Engineering) - With topics such as the wonders of MP3s and the physics of roller coasters, the NOISE website has a great range of accessible articles on how maths and science affect our lives everyday. The project aims to raise awareness of science and engineering, particularly amongst young people, and one section contains very human profiles of young scientists talking about what they do and how they got there. http://www.noisenet.ws More on MP3s and gravity: http://plus.maths.org/issue23/features/data/index-gifd.html http://plus.maths.org/indices/keyword_urls.html#GRAVITY The Plus Careers with Maths Library: http://plus.maths.org/interview.html ********** Mathematical moments Gosta Mittag-Leffler - Born 16 March 1846, Died 7 July 1927, Sweden. Important not only for his work in analysis, Mittag-Leffler also played an important role helping mathematicians communicate and collaborate. He was very involved in the European mathematical community, and his personal and political skills, as well as his mathematical ability, are credited with making the journal he set up in 1882, Acta Mathematica, a leading international mathematics journal still to this day. Mittag-Leffler was also one of the first mathematicians to support Cantor's theory of sets and is rumoured to be behind the scandalous and not-so-scandalous explanations for why there is no Nobel prize in mathematics. "The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another." - Gosta Mittag-Leffler, quoted in 'Mathematical Maxims and Minims' (1988) Read more about Gosta Mittag-Leffler ... from the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive: http://turnbull.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Mittag-Leffler.html from the Mittag-Leffler Institute: http://www.ml.kva.se/ and why there is no Nobel Prize in maths: http://db.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o/math-faq/node50.html and about Cantor sets and the Nobel Prize from Plus: http://plus.maths.org/issue17/features/measure/index.html http://plus.maths.org/indices/keyword_urls.html#NOBEL%20PRIZE ********** Live Maths More or Less - Plus's favourite radio show about the ubiquitous world of numbers is back on air for another season. When: 3pm Thursdays from June 17 2004 Where: BBC Radio 4 - for more information see the 'More or Less' website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/more_or_less/default.stm Happy reading from the Plus team. ********** If you received this message you have subscribed yourself to the PLUS-ANNOUNCE mailing list via our website. If you do not wish to remain on the list please visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=plus-announce&A=1 and follow the instructions to leave the list. If you have any comments on this newsletter, or Plus Magazine, please contact us at [log in to unmask] - we are always happy to hear from our readers! Feel free to forward this email to anyone you think might be interested.