Sarah Hart

Sep 25, 2024 | newscientist.com | Sarah Hart

Maths phobia is older than you might think. A hundred years ago, German physicist Felix Auerbach, lamenting the phenomenon and hoping to find ways to address it, wrote a little book called The Fear of Mathematics and How to Overcome It. Maths, he said, has so much to contribute to society that addressing this fear is a challenge of the highest importance. Auerbach was a fascinating character – a scientist but also a patron of the arts.

Jun 19, 2024 | newscientist.com | Sarah Hart

It is impossible to find a coastline’s exact length, as it grows with the rising precision of measurementsLightguard/Getty ImagesMapmaticsPaulina RowiĹ„ska (Picador (UK); Belknap Press (US, out 17 September))Mathematics helps us understand the world, and in Paulina RowiĹ„ska’s Mapmatics: How we navigate the world through numbers, the focus is on its indispensability in the making of visual representations of that world – maps.

May 10, 2024 | newscientist.com | Sarah Hart

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to tell you about fascinating ideas from their corner of the universe. You can sign up for Lost in Space-Time for free here. The artist Paul Klee famously described drawing as ‚Äútaking a line for a walk‚ÄĚ ‚Äď but why stop there? Mathematicians have been wondering for five centuries what happens when…

May 4, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Sarah Hart

Hart teaches at Gresham College, London, and is the first woman named its Professor of Geometry since the post was established in 1597. She is also an avid reader and lover of books. Here, she combines her passions to illuminate a world inside literature that most of us shy away from.

Jun 29, 2023 | boomers-daily.com | Sarah Hart |Patrick Mackie |Rebecca Struthers

Wall Street Journal Books & Art (June 28, 2023) – A country music outsider’s journey, the uprising that tested a young America, the true story of a psychotherapy cult and more standouts from the month in books. Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality From Camp Meeting to Wall StreetBy Jackson Lears Shaw’s life force, Freud’s libido, Bergson’s ‘élan vital’—all are expressions of a spark that eludes the control of civilized modernity. Review by Jeremy McCarter.