Maths
Interviews conducted by Maths Careers website writers Jacob Aron and Kate Oliver
Interview with Matt Candy
Product designer Matt Candy combines mathematical skills with practical know-how to create everything from aeroplane seats to coffee machines. He also helped to manage the team that broke the land speed record for a steam-powered car in 2009. Jacob Aron talked to him about how maths has helped drive his varied career.
Interview with Dave Collett
Dave Collett works as Associate Director of Statistics and Audit at NHS Blood and Transplant. Jacob Aron talked to him about using mathematical skills to decide which patients will get transplants and how to increase the number of registered donors.
Interview with Peter Cameron
Acting, thinking creatively and travelling around the world might sound like the work of a Hollywood superstar, but guess again. Peter Cameron has been a professor of mathematics at Queen Mary, University of London for nearly 25 years, and his work researching and teaching mathematics lets him do all this and more.
Interview with Richard Farleigh
Richard Farleigh's love of maths led him from a tough start into a $66 million fortune, a spot on 'Dragon's Den' and being a guardian angel for many fledging businesses. Find out how.