MathsScience & Engineering
Bringing land back to life
Land mine trip-wires are almost invisible, but the Radon Transform picks them out from the background to keep soldiers and civilians safe.
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.