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Getting crafty about sharing joy of maths
Chaos theory and crochet collide in Christchurch this month. University of Canterbury mathematicians are playfully promoting the art and craft of mathematics through a free public event on Sunday, 23 May. The Christchurch Maths Craft Day is free and open to everyone: experts and amateurs, maths-fans and maths-phobes, the crafty and the curious.
University of Canterbury mathematicians are playfully promoting the art and craft of mathematics through a free public event on Sunday 23 May.
“Maths is often overlooked as a subject of beauty and imagination,” says Senior Lecturer and Maths Craft co-creator Dr Jeanette McLeod of the University of Canterbury (UC) School of Mathematics and Statistics.
Thursday, 29 April 2021, 2:11 pm
Explore the nooks and crannies of Jack, James, Ernest,
Beatrice and parts of the original city campus including the
new ‘Old Chemistry’, as the 147-year-old University of
Canterbury (UC) opens its architecturally designed doors for
Open Christchurch weekend, 15-16 May.
Open
Christchurch is a one-weekend-only festival of exceptional
architecture. It’s for everyone to experience great
building design from the inside, for free.
Jack Erskine
building (UC Ilam campus)
ARCHITECT:
Architectus, Cook Hitchcock Sargeson & Perry Royal,
1994
This refined, cellular structure is a
contemporary salute to modernist architectural history. It
was designed to house the University of Canterbury’s
Museum Notebook: Vases of the Ancient World
18 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
3 minutes to read
Cypriot Amphora. Whanganui Regional Museum Collection ref: 1961.9.31
Whanganui Chronicle
Throughout the ancient world, vases were used in everyday life.
Used for storing oils and perfumes, wine and water, and for ritual purposes, the variety of surviving vases offers glimpses not only into their use in the home and in temples but also their role in trade and the economy.
Vases could be plain or decorated in both the classical and Roman eras but also in the earlier Minoan and Mycenaean periods. And with so many archaeological sites, various regional differences in clay are visible as well.
Monday, 22 February 2021, 10:19 am
Fake news entered our collective vocabulary during the
Trump presidency, but the concept is nothing new according
to the Head of Humanities and Creative Arts at the
University of Canterbury (UC), Associate Professor of
History Peter
Field.
“Trumpians seemed to insist that fake
news was something new, but they’re wrong. Long, long ago
- 26 centuries ago in fact - Plato and Thucydides were
convinced that the democracy was being fed a false way of
seeing the world, that the intellectuals and teachers were
duping the people.”
Like Trump, the two Greeks were
outraged, however their contempt was directed at “the
Press Release – University of Canterbury Fake news entered our collective vocabulary during the Trump presidency, but the concept is nothing new according to the Head of Humanities and Creative Arts at the University of Canterbury (UC), Associate Professor of History Peter Field . Trumpians …
Fake news entered our collective vocabulary during the Trump presidency, but the concept is nothing new according to the Head of Humanities and Creative Arts at the University of Canterbury (UC), Associate Professor of History Peter Field.
“Trumpians seemed to insist that fake news was something new, but they’re wrong. Long, long ago – 26 centuries ago in fact – Plato and Thucydides were convinced that the democracy was being fed a false way of seeing the world, that the intellectuals and teachers were duping the people.”