In this newsletter:

- Latest news
- Browse with Plus
- Mathematical moments
- Live maths

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Latest news from Plus

Gene-ius - The search for the maths gene 
http://www.plus.maths.org/latestnews/may-aug05/genes/index.html


Networks: nasty and nice -  Maths brings down the mafia
http://www.plus.maths.org/latestnews/may-aug05/networks/index.html


Plus... more news from the world of maths

Computer chaos 
http://www.plus.maths.org/latestnews/jan-apr05/plusmore35/index.html#computerchaos

Newton's manuscript rediscovered
http://www.plus.maths.org/latestnews/jan-apr05/plusmore35/index.html#newton

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Browse with Plus

Anamorphic art

If you are interested in the connections between maths and art, then you 
probably read our article "Maths and art: the whistlestop tour", 
http://plus.maths.org/issue33/features/dartnell_art/  in which Lewis 
Dartnell describes anamorphic art. This involves distorting images so that 
they can only be seen from a certain view point. The artist Julian Beever 
has taken this art-form to perfection. His street paintings, when viewed 
from the right spot, appear to be perfectly three-dimensional. Have a look 
at his webpage and be amazed.

http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm



Maths and language

If you are also interested in the connections between maths and language, 
then you might have read our article "Speechless maths", 
http://www.plus.maths.org/latestnews/jan-apr05/speechless/index.html  in 
which we mention research done with Amazonian tribespeople whose language 
does not contain words for numbers greater than three. The Cognitive 
Neuroimaging Research Unit has a nice survey of this and other research on 
the brain and arithmetic, with beautiful images of the people in the 
Amazon.

http://www.unicog.org/main/pages.php?page=Numbers



American mathematics competitions

if you live in the US and are of the competitive sort, you may want to have 
a look at the American mathematics competitions website. This gives details 
of "a series of friendly mathematics contests for students in junior 
high/middle school and senior high school".

http://www.unl.edu/amc/


Mathematical Moments from the AMS

The Mathematical Moments Program of the American Mathematical Society has 
an interesting survey of the uses of maths in the real world, for example 
in medical CAT scans and Archaeology.

http://www.ams.org/mathmoments


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Mathematical moments

Nina Karlovna Bari - Born 19th of November 1901 in Moccow, Russia, died  
                     15th July 1961 in Moscow, USSR 

Nina Karlovna Bari was one of the few outstanding female mathematicians of 
her time. In 1918 she entered the faculty of mathematcs and physics at the 
Moscow State University, where she started working with Nikolai Nikolaevich 
Luzin. She graduated and began to teach in 1921, and obtained a full 
professorship at Moscow State University in 1932. Inspired by Luzin's work, 
her main interest lay in the field of function theory, in particular she 
was interested in trigonometrical series. These are series, ie infinite 
sums, whose terms are made up of trigonometric functions such as sine and 
cosine. These series can be used to approximate a variety of other 
functions. Bari wrote more than 50 research articles, as well as books, on 
this and other subjects. Her final article, which presented her research 
into trigonometric series, has "become a standard reference for 
mathematicians specializing in the theory of functions and the theory of 
trigonometric series."

Bari died tragically by falling under a Moscow metro train in a suspected 
suicide.

 


Read more about Nina Karlovna Bari ...

... on the Mactutor History of Mathematics site:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Bari.html

and on the "biographies of women in mathematics" website
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/bari.htm 

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Live maths

The BA festival of science

This year's BA festival of science takes place in Dublin between the 3rd 
and 10th of September. It brings together over 400 national and 
international scientists and science communicators, and with over 100 
events and lectures will have something interesting for everyone. A 
programme of the festival, as well as booking information and prices can be 
found on the official website 
http://www.the-ba.net/the-ba/Events/FestivalofScience/

When: September 3rd - September 10th 2005
Where: Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland



The Theatre of Science

Due to popular demand, the Soho Theatre in London has put on extra 
performances of Simon Singh and Richard Wiseman's Theatre of Science. In 
this spectacular show, a million volts of lightning create six foot sparks 
on stage, and you can admire, among other things, optical illusions and the 
art of contortionists. This show is suitable for people of 16 and over. 
Find out more on Simon singh's website 
http://www.simonsingh.net/Theatre_of_Science.html. Tickets are £12 (£10 
concession) and you can book them on the Soho Theatre website 
http://www.sohotheatre.com/homepage/default.htm.

When:  22nd and 23rd of July at 7 and 9 pm.
Where: Soho Theatre and Writers' Centre
       21 Dean Street
       London 
       W1D 3NE

 

Happy reading from the Plus team!

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