Articles By Mark Ronan
May 2013
After a request to exchange a shopping trolley in Germany was lost in translation, I now know the eurozone must fail
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March 2013
The French polymath Henri Pointcaré excelled in astronomy, physics mathematics and a lot more
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December 2012
Robert Oppenheimer, far from being a one-dimensional Dr Atomic, was a tragic character of huge erudition
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October 2012
If you think that the discovery of the Higgs Boson solved all the mysteries of particle physics, think again
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July/August 2012
Einstein's biggest breakthroughs came after he had made an effort to learn from his earlier mistakes
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May 2012
Will today’s scientists hunting the Higgs boson prove as ingenious as the ancient Mesopotamians?
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April 2012
As publishers charge more for journals, academics are beginning to feel short-changed.
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November 2011
Minkowski enabled Einstein to supersede Newton. Today’s scientists must emulate them
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September 2011
Angela Merkel and Jean-Claude Trichet recently attended a premiere of Tannhauser in Bayreuth but their own lives are more like an operatic melodrama
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July/August 2011
Little is known about Euclid the man, but his cathedral of mathematical reasoning endures
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January/February 2011
Ludicrous red-tape is stifling innovation and inspiration in Universities. Administrators must step aside
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September 2010
The Bletchley Park cryptographers were a rum bunch. Their successors are keeping up the good work
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May 2010
The dearth of GCSE Greek courses — or indeed, Ancient Greek history — taught in state schools is to the great detriment of secondary school pupils
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April 2010
The government's insistence on incessant testing leaves pupils arithmetically substandard
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January/February 2010
When politics has entered the scientific debate over climate change, how can we trust the experts?
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December 2009
Government plans to allocate scientific research funding according to "economic and social impact" will stifle creativity and prevent basic advances
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October 2009
The shapes and patterns of Nature have some surprising explanations
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June 2009
Ronald Harwood's plays tackle the thorny issue of great artists accused of collaborating with the Nazis
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April 2009
British universities need to become more like America’s if they want to keep the best scientists
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December 2008
100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know by John D. Barrow
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November 2008
Every pupil should have the chance to learn from the neglected father of geometry
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About Mark Ronan
Mark Ronan is Honorary Professor of Mathematics at University College, London, Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and author of Symmetry and the Monster. He also runs an on-line review site for opera, ballet and theatre. See it here.
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