Stimulating Mathematics-in-lndustry

摘要

It is a wonderful surprise and honour to be awarded the IMA Gold Medal, It is especially poignant for me because one of the people who most influenced my career was my supervisor Alan Tayler, who was the recipient (in 1982) of the first medal, jointly with another of my role models, James Lighthill. Moreover, the theme of my talk is an activity that would have been very different had it not been for the vision of these two people.