Why sine (and cosine) make waves
From trigonometry to waves.
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.
From trigonometry to waves.
There are several ways in which it can and studies suggest they could be safe and effective.
What do we know about mpox, what do we not know, and what efforts are going into modelling it?
Maryna Viazovska has won one of this year's Fields Medals for a ground-breaking result in the theory of sphere packings.
Barry Mazur has received the 2022 Chern Medal for profound discoveries in topology, arithmetic geometry and number theory.