Math4NL Bridging Mathematics and Society

Bridging mathematics and society

Math4NL aims to strengthen the interaction between mathematicians and society. To accomplish this Math4NL facilitates collaboration between mathematicians and industry. Math4NL is the contact centre for industry, societal organisations and mathematicians and, provides support for transferring mathematical knowledge to industry and the other way around.

Novel mathematics inspired by societal challenges

The best way to show how societal challenges can be solved by novel mathematics is by showing some real life stories.

The Royal Dutch Lawn Tennis Association (KNLTB) was looking for an improved ranking methodology for double players in national and regional official competitions, which has to become a better indicator of the tennis skills and better predictor for results of future matches.

Determining the weight of turkeys

Study Group Mathematics with Industry 2019 was held at Wageningen University & Research. Topics went from traffic lights and towing tanks to 3D prints in concrete.

And they tried to come up with an approach for determining the weight of turkeys while walking on pressure plates hidden under the floor.

Applying Mathematics

Experiment with a do-it-yourself leg built from two pieces of wood with foam in between as knee joint. It might not be what you would expect from mathematicians. However it is exactly what they did during SWI2020. Read more (in Dutch)

What pleasure it is to drive in a progressive signal system. Of course those traffic lights are not smart by themselves, they contain smart software. And this software is more effective when the underlying calculations are more efficient. Read more (in Dutch)

Math4NL is a young organisation that is still developing.

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