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Life in Mathematics
James Franklin
I enjoyed hearing the latest from my PhD student, Therese
Keane. She's working on combat modelling with partial differential
equations with her employer, the Defence Science and Technology
Organisation.
She is preparing to give her first seminar on her work tomorrow,
and we discussed what would appeal to an audience who don't
know the topic and how to display her mathematical work so
as to give some insight into where she is going.
As a more senior researcher with by now a
quite wide range of experience, I have the opportunity to
guide and advise research in
new and "off the wall" topics
for enthusiastic younger researchers with
their own ideas.
At school, I was interested in the humanities, especially
history, and less so in science. I achieved good results in
mathematics and did a degree combining mathematics, philosophy
and history.
I have continued to work with mathematics, philosophy and
the history of ideas - there is synergy between those abstract
disciplines despite the great differences in their subject
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