How did you find the experience of hosting Professor
Brian Cox’s recent tour in Australia?
Phenomenal mind and just a thrill to perform to crowds
of over 2,000 people talking cosmology. His Melbourne
show was the largest public lecture he’s ever done!
And finally… You’re a man of many talents. But if
you could have one superpower, what would it be and
why?
I’d love to be a lot better at chess – a fairly nerdy
superpower I know, but I’d love it. Me and Wolverine,
we’d be unstoppable.
quarters deliberate disingenuity. Lord Monckton’s
qualifications and opinions speak for themselves.
You were appointed the first ambassador for
mathematics and science at the University of
Sydney. What does this appointment mean to
you?
A great chance to be part of the debate about the
need to train more scientists and mathematicians in
Australia. They will build this century and that is, to
me, screamingly obvious. We can’t just keep
digging stuff up and selling it or competing with
low labour cost nations for manufacturing. The
future is science and in the age of big data almost
all science will have mathematics at its vanguard.
You were a championship debater all
throughout your schooling. Does this translate to
fighting fairly with your wife, Melanie?
If anything it’s a hindrance … “don’t try that
debating rubbish on me”.
Professor Brian Cox enjoys the Big Book of Numbers
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