Over the last week or so, and in the wake of the riots the prison population has increased by a few thousand. Also last week A level results came out and applicants learnt if they were successful and are going to university. The number of British students has not increased; the government has capped the […]
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I am reading The Theory That Would Not Die by Sharon Betsch McGrayne. It is a book on Bayes’ Theorem. Bayes’ Theorem is simple but a bit too subtle to describe in a couple of snappy sentences in a blog post, so I won’t describe it here. You can check out the Wikipedia page if you […]
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This is the post with the link to FAQ page of the American Donkey and Mule Society’s site. That was not a sentence I thought I would be typing 20 minutes ago, but science takes you everywhere. There is an entertaining website Snopes, which examines urban truths and tries to assess whether they are true […]
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Often, when physics academics like me meet up with each other, we moan about how little maths our incoming students can do. Certainly here at Surrey we are finding it difficult to convince some students with weak maths and little confidence in their maths ability to work hard at it, and to ask for help. […]
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