Suarez Tweet goes viral
Graham Farmelo (@grahamfarmelo)
24/06/2014 18:55
Suarez ready for the next match: pic.twitter.com/BjXrZ5lXDC
CNN yesterday afternoon featured Graham’s Tweet about Louis Suarez’s preparations for his next World Cup match.
25 June 2014
31 May 2014
Meeting the king of the twistor
Graham spent last Thursday in Oxford with the great mathematician Roger Penrose, 82, inventor of the mathematical object known as the twistor. In a wide-ranging conversation, Penrose talked about his early life, his development as a scientist and his thoughts on the latest developments in fundamental physics.
Roger Penrose, Oxford, May 2014
28 May 2014
Art of Explaining
Graham was on stage in Berlin on Monday evening with Freeman Dyson, Canadian biographer Siobhan Roberts and Russian film-maker Ekaterina Eremenko to discuss ‘The Art of Explaining’. Chaired by the physicist Jochen Bruening, the panel talked about some of the ways of presenting science and mathematics to non-specialist audiences.
Panel at the Restaurant Alpenstueck after their discussion: (left to right) Jochen Bruening, Freeman Dyson, Ekaterina Eremenko, Siobhan Roberts and Graham.
25 May 2014
The cleric who wanted Dirac kept out of Westminster Abbey
The struggle to have Dirac commemorated in Westminster Abbey lasted several years, as Graham describes in The Strangest Man. According to the late physicist Dick Dalitz, who led the group that campaigned for the commemoration, the main obstacle was the Dean of Westminster, who objected that Dirac had been a ‘militant atheist’. …
Michael Mayne, Dean of Westminster Abbey (1986-1996)