Impact

Thanks to the HE STEM Programme, the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, and the Queen Mary Student Experience Investment Fund for funding work towards this project.

The booklet "Where the maths you learn is used" was compiled by Vivien Easson and Michael Yates with the help of the following staff and research students of the School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary: Andy Drizen, Joe Elliston, John Faben, Jonit Fischmann, Nicholas Illman, Saiful Islam, Mudakkar Khadim, Jennifer Klim, Javier López Peña, Ben Parker, Wei Roberts, Manjula Samarasinghe, Lynne Stockman, Emil Vaughan and Francis Wright. Thanks also to David Arrowsmith, Peter McOwan, Abi Sharma and Hugo Touchette for advice.

If you enjoyed reading the booklet then look at the following links and clips to find out more about some of the topics discussed!

Business and Management

• Hypothesis testing: http://www.sixsigmascotland.co.uk/case-study-call-centre-hypothesis-testing.pdf(link is external) 
• Long tail distributions and sales: http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-lon1.htm(link is external)

Finance and Economics

• Pricing derivatives and options: http://www.optionseducation.org/basics/options_pricing.jsp (link is external)
• Monte-Carlo algorithms: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2280232?seq=1(link is external)

Sound and Graphics

• Mathematics and music composition: http://www.crm.es/Publications/08/Pr822.pdf (link is external)
• Sound waves: http://www.fourier-series.com/fourierseries2/fourier_series_tutorial.html(link is external) 
• Vibration and harmonics: http://thehumanmarvels.com/?p=117(link is external)
• Tea for two...or four...or eight? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJXSxnw&feature=fvw(link is external)
• Fractals and virtual worlds: http://library.thinkquest.org/26242/full/ap/ap.html(link is external)

Space and Navigation

• Aerodynamics: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/R/Reynolds_number.html (link is external)
•  Gravity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urwIDsr20s0(link is external)
• Relativity and GPS: http://www.gps.gov/(link is external)

Communications and Security

• Simple encryption: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT13(link is external)
• Internet security and digital signatures: http://www.di-mgt.com.au/rsa_alg.html(link is external)
• Error-correcting codes: http://www.msri.org/people/members/sara/articles/hat.html(link is external)
• Data compression and digital music: http://library.thinkquest.org/26242/full/ap/ap.html(link is external)

Energy and the Environment

• Extreme weather events: http://physics.aps.org/articles/v2/86(link is external)
• Seasonal variability: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/(link is external)
• Seasonal variability:http://www.statistics.gov.uk/hub/labour-market/people-not-in-work/unemployment(link is external)
• Order and chaos: http://www.severn-bore.co.uk/(link is external)
• Modelling the natural world: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/doppler.htm(link is external)

To infinity and beyond

• Mathematics Subject Classification: http://www.ams.org/msc(link is external)