• Question: To what sort of things do you apply your maths?

    Asked by aidanowens to Cathal on 11 Nov 2013.
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      Cathal Cummins answered on 11 Nov 2013:


      Being an applied mathematician, I apply it to physics most of the time. In particular, to the motion of fluids. One of the problems I solved as a scientist was how bubbles in beer move and dance — and how they sometimes do things they are not supposed to do!

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