Articles Tagged ‘mathematics’

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Dara Ó Briain on science and video games

Dara Ó Briain recently helped to launch the Dublin City of Science 2012 celebrations. Read some of his insights on science here

Video gallery: 2012 BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition

Watch some of the highlights of the 2012 BT Young Scientist Exhibition

Win an iPad or laptop in National Mole Day

Schools dream up fun ways to celebrate Avogadro’s Number

Maths Week Café with Fernando Blasco and Maths Jam

Maths Week Café is a joint Event with Fernando Blasco and Maths Jam and hosted by the Alchemist Café Dublin. The event will take place on Tuesday 18 of October at 7.30pm at the Mercantile Hotel, Dublin. About Fernando Blasco Dr. Fernando Blasco is a mathematician at the Universidad Politécnica ...

RDS Science Live: A Statistical Approach to Calculus

Often students can engage in topics like Calculus without developing an intuition for the topic. This demonstration lecture introduces students to Calculus using statistical techniques, including the ‘Monte Carlo’ approach, in a highly interactive and physical context. Students are invited to throw “ball bearing” like objects into a physical circular ...

Fun nights for maths enthusiasts

MathsJam brings together maths enthusiasts in a pub once a month

Schoolboy uses maths for solar panel breakthrough

Invention is based on Nature’s numbering system

Get a sneak preview of virtual Dublin

TCD researchers use maths, science and engineering to develop virtual world

Maths Buskers at Atlantic Corridor conference

Videos from the Irish conference on STEM education

Hamilton Walk 2011

Walk in the footsteps of a giant figure in maths and acience on 16 October. That’s “Broomsday”, the date when William Rowan Hamilton came up with the concept of quaternions in 1843. His breakthrough – which is still of vital importance in all sorts of fields, including computer games – ...

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