The Sun is just one of around two hundred billion stars orbiting around a super-massive black hole at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. In turn, the Milky Way is just one of around two hundred billion galaxies in the Universe.
If you are thinking at all about a career in engineering, then the videos on this page are for you. Engineers from five diverse sectors talk about their careers, as well as giving real life examples of where they use A-level maths.
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.