• Question: How can you incorporate your mathematical genius in to sport?

    Asked by seanymaguire to Cathal on 13 Nov 2013.
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      Cathal Cummins answered on 13 Nov 2013:

      The thing about mathematics is that the skills I use in solving equations is the exact same part of my brain that I use when I’m solving real-world problems — it really is a way of thinking.

      But to be specific, you could predict the optimum time to make a substitution in football or you could use mathematics to design faster formula 1 cars — this is actually done today as it is cheaper than designing the car in the laboratory.

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