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Maths on the Move, the podcast from plus.maths.org, will bring you the latest news from the world of maths, plus interviews and discussions with leading mathematicians and scientists about the maths that is changing our lives. Hosted by Plus editors Rachel Thomas and Marianne Freiberger.
We love a game of billiards — or at least the mathematical version of it. It's a dynamical system that's just about basic enough to study but still poses lots of open questions. In this episode of Maths on the Move we talk to Giovanni Forni about chaos, periodicity and the many things we still hope to learn about billiards.
We met Giovanni at the European Congress of Mathematics (ECM) in summer this year, which we attended with kind support of the London Mathematical Society. See here for more episodes of our Euromaths series which reports on the ECM.
To find out more about mathematical billiards on Plus see
Chaos on the billiards table
Playing billiards on doughnuts
Playing billiards on strange tables
Here are a couple of academic papers by Forni and his collaborators:
Weakly Mixing Billiards, J. Chaika, G. Forni
Weak Mixing in rational billiards, F. Arana-Herrera, J. Chaika, G. Forni.
This content was produced with kind support from the London Mathematical Society.
Maths on the Move
Maths on the Move, the podcast from plus.maths.org, will bring you the latest news from the world of maths, plus interviews and discussions with leading mathematicians and scientists about the maths that is changing our lives. Hosted by Plus editors Rachel Thomas and Marianne Freiberger.