UK Success Stories in Industrial Mathematics
This publication showcases the work of UK mathematicians and statisticians by describing industrial problems that have been successfully solved, together with a summary of the financial and/or societal impact that arose from the work. The articles are gro
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UK Success Stories in Industrial Mathematics
UK Success Stories in Industrial Mathematics
Philip J. Aston Anthony J. Mulholland Katherine M.M. Tant •
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Editors Philip J. Aston Department of Mathematics University of Surrey Guildford UK
Katherine M.M. Tant Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Strathclyde Glasgow UK
Anthony J. Mulholland Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Strathclyde Glasgow UK
ISBN 978-3-319-25452-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-25454-8
ISBN 978-3-319-25454-8
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Foreword
An Apology for a Mathematician Let’s face it, a Foreword is included in a book mostly for decorative purposes! It offers pleasant statements about the authors and the book’s contents in the safe knowledge that only the authors themselves, and occasionally perhaps the authors’ relatives, will read it. After all, why read the Foreword when you want to get on with the real thing? I hope that my title will tempt the odd reader or two to dally a while before turning the page on their i-readers. My aim is to make a couple of, I believe, important points that can be extrapolated from the contents herein, and from recent activity within the UK Mathematical Sciences community more broadly. In a nutshell, I believe that we have entered a golden age for mathematics1 and mathematicians to engage with, and have impact on, industry, commerce, business, government, policy makers, other sciences and the broader reaches of academe, the general public and school students. What name we give to this activity is problematic: ‘knowledge transfer’ or ‘exchange’, ‘industrial’ or ‘appl
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