About Peter Rowlett

I work in maths promotion and maths education. You may be interested in my talks, publications, videos and maths podcasts. My blog is Travels in a Mathematical World.

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Connect

Contact me.

Find me on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Academia.edu & YouTube.

Latest Twitter updates:

  • peterrowlett: @TimHarford re. modes of transport relative safety: are you talking to @undunc about his micromort scale?
    (3 Sep 2010 7:47am)

  • peterrowlett: @jamesgrime yes. You get it whenever 365.25*n is slightly greater than a prime. It's more often slightly less (or nowhere near).
    (1 Sep 2010 10:47pm)

  • peterrowlett: New blog post "Prime birthdays: @jamesgrime phenomenon" http://bit.ly/d0jFRn
    (1 Sep 2010 9:16pm)

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Research

Interested in my research? Try the research page. Latest research publication:

  • Workshop report...Visual impairment in maths, stats and operational research (MSOR), MSOR Connections, 1 May 2010 (co-authored).
    I edited and contributed to a collection of short reports from a workshop I chaired on visual impairment.

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Videos

Latest video:

  • My puzzles stall

    My puzzles stall, 31 Jul 2010.
    I show what puzzles I use when I run a puzzles stall for the IMA.

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Writing

Latest pop maths publications:

  • Carnival of Mathematics #67, Carnival of Mathematics, 2 Jul 2010.
    I hosted issue 67 of the Carnival of Mathematics, a monthly maths blog roundup.

  • What do mathematicians do?, Off the shelves: The Careers Group Library Blog, 23 Mar 2010.
    Guest blog post for the Careers Group, University of London about giving my careers talk for the IMA and what I tell students about careers options for mathematics graduates and being a professional mathematician.

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Find out about my research publications in the research pages.

Podcasts

Math/Maths Podcast

Math/Maths Podcast: A weekly conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org.
Get latest episode (27 Aug 2010).

Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast

Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast is a set of 64 episodes of mathematicians speaking in their own words about their work, maths history and maths news.
Get all 64 episodes.

History of Maths and x

History of Maths and x is a set of video lectures, offering mathematical histories for various topics, x.