What do mathematicians do all day? Dr Katie Steckles
Dr Katie Steckles explores the lives of mathematicians and some of the puzzles they spend their time trying to solve.
Recorded at Ada Lovelace Day Live at The IET on 8 October 2019.
Dr Katie Steckles takes a look at the problems and puzzles that keep her and her fellow mathematicians busy all day, such as whether it’s possible to create a perfect cuboid where the ‘spaced diagonal’ through a cuboid and all the lengths are whole numbers.
Dr Katie Steckles
Dr Katie Steckles is a mathematician based in Manchester UK, who gives talks and workshops and writes about mathematics. She finished her PhD in 2011, and since then has talked about maths in schools and universities, at science festivals, on BBC radio and TV, at music festivals, as part of theatre shows and on the internet. Photo by Steve Kirkby.
Twitter: @stecks
Web: katiesteckles.co.uk
About Ada Lovelace Day
Ada Lovelace Day is an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths which aims to increase the profile of women in STEM and create new role models for both girls and women studying or working in STEM.
Ada Lovelace Day Live 2023 was held at the Royal Institution on Tuesday 10 October. It was hosted by comedian Helen Arney, and featured Prof Jennifer Rohn, head of the Centre for Urological Biology UCL; Dr Azza Eltraify, senior software engineer at Ultracell Networks Ltd; Dr Sophie Carr, mathematician, Bays Consulting Ltd; Dr Aarathi Prasad, writer, broadcaster, and geneticist; Dr Anjana Khatwa, Earth scientist and presenter; Dr Antonia Pontiki, biomedical engineer at King’s College London; and Rosie Curran Crawley, presenter at L’Oreal Young Scientist Centre.
About The IET
The IET is one of the world’s leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community. The IET provides a global knowledge network to facilitate the exchange of ideas and promote the positive role of science, engineering and technology in the world.