Marianne Freiberger

Marianne Freiberger

Marianne Freiberger is Editor of Plus. She joined Plus in 2005 after doing a PhD and then a three year postdoc at Queen Mary, University of London. As a researcher she worked in complex dynamics, the area of pure maths that has given us the Mandelbrot set. During her time as a researcher she also held various teaching engagements. In the world of maths communication she has been Editor-in-Chief of the Mathscareers website, given presentations to mathematicians about how to communicate their work to a wider audience, and to journalists about how to deal with maths in the media. She has been a TEDx speaker and an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010.

 

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What made the Moon?

New research suggests that our trusty companion may not have been the Earth's first, but formed from several smaller moonlets.
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Watching the cosmos

When it comes to the entire cosmos, we humans are incredibly small and insignificant. But that's precisely why we need to take ourselves into account when thinking about the Universe. Find out why.
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A brief introduction to the strange theory of quantum mechanics and how it appears to afford a special role to observers.
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Easy as ABC?

Mathematicians are working hard to understand an impenetrable proof of the famous ABC conjecture.
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Political tides

Politician Douglas Carswell has been arguing with scientists about what causes the tides. We've figured out who's right.