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Subject:

Latest news from Plus magazine! - http://plus.maths.org

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Thu, 8 Jul 2004 04:55:54 +0100

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 Latest news from Plus magazine! - http://plus.maths.org

In this newsletter:

- Latest news
- Browse with Plus
- Mathematical moments


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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


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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


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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

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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.

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