From alex.byrne at btinternet.com Thu Nov 26 16:34:31 2020 From: alex.byrne at btinternet.com (ALEX BYRNE) Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 16:34:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [r-t] Prof Sarah Hart Message-ID: Philip Earis found out (and reported here on 12th October) that Prof Sarah Hart was giving a lecture on 'The Mathematics of Bellringing' as a part of a series of public lectures at Gresham College. See this link:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/maths-bellringing I said I'd email her, so I did, and she responded. I asked whether she was a ringer or knew any and - surprisingly to me - she was not and did not. Her interest in the subject came from reading papers by people like Arthur White, Robin Wilson and Dermot Roaf and that 'it seemed like a good subject for a talk'. I also suggested that there might be interest from some in the ringing community in some collaboration on certain topics, but she declined on the grounds of lack of time (at least for the moment). In any case, I think it would be rather fun if a few of us could turn up (virtually) for the talk. Best wishes, Alex. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john at jaharrison.me.uk Thu Nov 26 17:41:14 2020 From: john at jaharrison.me.uk (John Harrison) Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 17:41:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [r-t] Prof Sarah Hart In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <58d59052f3john@jaharrison.me.uk> Her first two talks were good, but they aren't aimed at a specialist audience, and seems to assume a pretty low level of background maths knowledge. I would say she's trying to show there's more to maths than most people realise - the same motivation as teachers who have invited me to talk about maths of ringing in schools. -- John Harrison Website http://jaharrison.me.uk