Articles by Adam Townsend
Adam is a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London, where he investigates weird, non-Newtonian fluids. If he's not talking about the maths of chocolate fountains he is probably thinking about fonts, helping Professor Dirichlet answer your personal problems, and/or listening to BBC Radio 2.
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Review of The Maths Behind by Colin Beveridge
Should you ask Santa for 'Ice Col' Beveridge's encyclopedic tome this festive period?
Review: Mathematical T-shirt
A summer essential or an embarrassment risk on the streets of Ibiza?
How many quadratics factorise?
Write down a quadratic. What is the probability that it factorises? Paging Prof. Dirichet...
Top 10 emoji for use in mathematics
We take a look at the top 10 emojis!
Why self-service machines give such awful change
Unexpected item in bagging areAAAARGGGHH here's 90p change in pennies
Forget a new £1 coin, we need a £1.23 coin
Not the new coin we want, but the new coin we need
Is MEDUSA the new BODMAS?
Why the infamous acronym needs revising.
Review: Mathematical socks
Can you wear them and be taken mathematically seriously?
Dear Dirichlet Christmas special
Agony uncle Professor Dirichlet answers your personal problems this Christmastime.
Switching sides in a matrix equation
Looking for a neat description of this useful matrix part-inverse
Stopping distances in the Highway Code are wrong
An easy equation to remember for your driving theory test, with dangerous consequences
Names for large numbers
Extending the million, billion, trillion system to much, much bigger numbers
Fun with water bells
Explaining how surface tension makes water form surprising shapes
Victorian maths tricks with old money
Exploring mental arithmetic tricks in T. Martin's 1842 guide, 'Pounds, shillings and pence'
Weekend at MathsJam
Chalkdust visits popular maths' biggest conference
Is there a perfect maths font?
Let's print your thesis in Comic Sans