Plus MagazineIssue 2 Find out how modern telephone networks use
mathematics to make it possible for a person to dial a friend in
another country just as easily as if they were in the same
street, or to read web pages that are on a computer in another
continent. The mathematics underlying today's complex telephone
networks is still based on his work. Erlang was the first person
to study the problem of telephone networks. Here is an
experiment that you can easily do yourself to test Bernoulli's
equation. There are also 2 questions and answers. The British
General Election (May 1997) is an example of how simple
mathematical ideas help in understanding information that
involves numbers. After 5,000 years, the game of Nine Men's
Morris has succumbed to the power of modern computing, plus
other recent mathematical discoveries in the world of games.
Read about two students at Keele University. Christine Vretta is
doing Joint Honours Maths and Physics, and Steve Smith is doing
Joint Honours Maths and Computer Science