All Mathematical Salads

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Lucy Rycroft-Smith explores the mysterious world of logical reasoning, piecing together the clues about what kind of mathematics we practise when we reason differently

A man working retail, using a scanner to scan an item on the shelf

Dominika Majewska discovers how a shop floor assistant utilises mathematics

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Join Darren Macey as he considers Bayesian statistics and how some of the building blocks could be used to enhance more commonly encountered topics

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Dominika Majewska discovers how a trainee clinical psychologist utilises mathematics

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Lynne McClure reviews a recent national research review publication

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Lynne McClure asks a tattoo removal business director how he uses maths in his role

A tree shape made up of lines and circles in a range of different colours.

Join Lucy Rycroft-Smith as she thinks creatively about using tree diagrams, from Morse Code to “choose your own adventure” stories

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Alison Borthwick is the latest mathematician to face Dominika Majewska's seven questions

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Lynn Fortin looks at one of the lessons learned from – and how lessons could be changed by – learning from home during the pandemic

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Dominika Majewska asks a television producer how he uses maths in his role

All Mathematical Salads

Did you mean to call my Holmes number?

Intersections: Mathematics and the shop floor assistant

Binomials and the basics of Bayesianism

Intersections: Mathematics and the trainee clinical psychologist

Review: noun; a critical appraisal

Intersections: Mathematics and the tattoo removal business director

Trying trees

Seven questions with... Alison Borthwick

How should I be taught today?

Intersections: Mathematics and the television producer