MathsScience & Engineering
Finding the lay of the land
Surveyors play an important role in our society, helping us to construct buildings and roads, settle land ownership, and draw maps. In addition to strong mathematical skills, surveyors must also understand elements of engineering and the legal system.
Get lost
Sat-nav systems have found their way into millions of cars over the last decade. But how do these small gadgets know that you've gone off track?
Smashing up the universe
The Large Hadron Collider is an ambitious project which hopes to find the smallest pieces that make up matter and study them.
Million-year-old maths
Ancient dinosaur fossils are often missing bones, but maths can help fill in the blanks.
The first computer programme
Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, was the only legitimate child of romantic poet Byron. At 17, her remarkable maths abilities began to show.
The father of modern physics
The famous 20th century scientist Albert Einstein once said, ‘Education is that which remains when one has forgotten everything learned in school’. He meant that learning how to be inquisitive and think for yourself is more important than just memorising facts. That’s how Einstein discovered the theory of relativity - thinking hard about the maths of the universe.
