Author, speaker, Director of www.mathsinspiration.com, cricket-lover, dad. Friend of BBC R4's podcast More or Less.
Rob Eastaway
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Coming to Leeds very soon - replicas of John Venn's incredible bowling machine, first tested out on the touring Australian Ashes team in 1909.
It's part of the City of Maths programme.
www.cityofmaths.co.uk/whats-on/bow...
correction, doors open 6:15, talk at 7pm
Ouch - this is what can happen when you try to catch a hard red ball and fail. But at least the sit in A&E has given me a chance to finish the excellent biography of Thomas Harriot, the greatest English mathematician that nobody's ever heard of.
Last weekend, three mathematicians set up a history stall at the annual @histassoc.bsky.social conference.
Here's what happened next robeastaway.com/blog/history...
If you're looking for what to do in balmy Southwark this evening, @sparksmaths.bsky.social is talking maths and music at MathsWorld at 6:15pm. It'll be great as always. mathsworld.com/events/Sound...
A More or Less listener asked: "How many football pitches could you fit in Wales?"
I was on this morning's programme to answer this surprisingly nuanced question. Item starts at 24:00 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
A More or Less listener asked: "How many football pitches could you fit in Wales?"
I was on this morning's programme to answer this surprisingly nuanced question. Item starts at 24:00 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Imagine if numeracy were taught in history lessons.
So many great stories about how and why the Tudors switched from Roman to Indo Arabic numerals.
Here's the GCSE 'exam' that we circulated at the recent
@histassoc.bsky.social conference:
robeastaway.com/graphics/GCS...
#NationalNumeracyDay
