In 2015-2016 The Maths Academy
will be offering interactive lectures to students and schools across South Yorkshire and beyond! We are offering
an Interactive Lecture Series for students who are able come to the University of Sheffield
and a travelling Road Show that will visit schools to give interactive lectures.
You can find details of lecture dates, times, and locations in the descriptions below.
If you'd like the Road Show to visit your school, or if you'd like to attend the Interactive Lecture Series then please email Fionntan Roukema (f.roukema(at)sheffield.ac.uk). General questions are also very welcome!
For the last four years, The Interactive Lecture Series has inspired, motivated, and encouraged students from across Sheffield to engage with, and understand what mathematics is. However, we're not happy; these interactive mathematical experiences should be available to everyone, not just those attending schools that are close to the university. So, we're going to bring some of these interactive lectures to your school!
All you have to do is contact Fionntan Roukema (f.roukema(at)sheffield.ac.uk) to arrange a visit. The number of visits we can make is restricted, so please contact us as soon as possible avoid disappointment.
This is an interactive lecture series aimed at eager and interested year 12 and year 13 students. The lectures will be highly interactive and so the session content may differ from the titles and descriptions below. There is a restricted number of places and priority will be given to year 12 students. All sessions will take place in Hicks Building, Lecture Theatre 2 (see the map below).
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Links to further reading will be posted after the sessions above so that you can independently research beyond what you saw during the lecture. You can have a look at details of the sessions from semester one below.
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Have you ever thought about what mathematics is? Many people might say it has something to do with numbers, or that it's about equations. I don't pretend to know what mathematics is, but we'll spend this lecture convincing ourselves that, whatever it is, beauty and mystery lie at the very heart the subject! In this talk we'll start at the very beginning with basic geometric objects like triangles and squares, and numbers like 1,2,3,... and follow our noses. Whatever our destination, we'll rediscover some monumental leaps in human reasoning along the way! Remarks and links following the session:
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How high we can make our numbers, without hitting the ceiling of infinity? Well, as high as you want, obviously! We'll talk about how to make big numbers efficiently. Remarks and links following the session:
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A set either has finitely many objects or doesn't, and that's all there is to say, right? Wrong, incredibly, there is a lot to say! Cantor shook the world of mathematics in the late nineteenth century with a wonderful result that will change the way you think about infinity! Come to this talk and learn what all the fuss was about. Remarks and links following the session:
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