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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Climbing the Twitter ladder

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Why quantum mechanics?

Why did physicists at the beginning of the 20th century feel they needed a new — and strange — theory?
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No need for words

Where does our ability to do abstract maths come from? A new study sheds some fascinating light on the question.
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Snakes and adders

How can an electronic device fed on a diet of 0s and 1s perform complex tasks? We explore the workings of computers using an example.
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Happy birthday Claude Shannon!

You may not have heard his name, but you're making use of his work every single day: Claude Shannon, hailed the father of the information age, would have turned 100 this week.
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Order behind chaos

We all know what symmetry is. But why does it play such a central role in modern physics?