Maths in the City - shine a mathematical spotlight on your street

摘要

Our cities are filled with buildings, roads, cars, buses, trains, bikes, parks and gardens. They are crisscrossed with power, water, sewage and transport systems. They are built by engineers, architects, planners, doctors, designers and artists. Our cities are shaped by our environment, our society and our culture. And each and every part is built on mathematics, To reveal the maths hiding in our urban surroundings we have just launched a new project: 'Maths in the City'. The project is led by Marcus du Sautoy, Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, and is based at the Department for Continuing Education's Technology Assisted Lifelong Learning (TALL) unit at the University of Oxford. Marcus and a team of volunteer mathematicians from Oxford will develop walking tours of Oxford and London taking the public on a mathematical adventure of the city.