Pupils and parents of the Wellington School community were treated to a lecture with a difference from Professor Alan Champneys of Bristol University.
Alan is Professor of Applied Non-linear Mathematics at the University of Bristol, where he has been a lecturer since 1993.
The lecture, entitled Rock, Rattle and Slide; why Mathematics is important to Engineering, held the audience captivated for over an hour.
Sixth form maths students were introduced to one of Professor Champneys latest papers- one of over 200 he has seen published during his career.
The lecture, which was the 26th Passmore Memorial, was set up by the parents of Old Wellingtonian for keen mathematician, Tom Passmore, who died shortly after leaving Wellington School.
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