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Maths for the 21st Century

Videos

Below we present a number of video snippets that discuss the relationship between Mathematics and modern day issues confronting scientists, engineers, computer scientists and other professionals.


Maths & Crispy Breakfast Cereal (54mb)
Mark McGuiness tells us how Maths helped Uncle Tobys make crispier breakfast cereal for us all to enjoy.
The images in this video are used with express permission from Uncle Tobys.

Maths & Wool Scouring (120mb)
Steve Barry talks about how Maths is used to streamline the wool cleaning (or scouring) process.


Links

The CSIRO publishes an online review of scientific innovations for Australian industry called SOLVE. Mathematics is mentioned in many of their articles as the means to solve the problem at hand. Specifically, their February 2007 issue focussed on Mathematical Modelling. You can access this publication at the following site:

SOLVE


     
 
 
 

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