30 Jul 2023

Katie Steckles: Amazing maths in a maze

From Sunday Morning, 10:10 am on 30 July 2023
dpatop - 16 August 2022, Saxony, Kleinwelka: Visitors walk in the maze between the evergreen thuja hedge plants. The maze near Bautzen celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2022. (Aerial view with a drone) Photo: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa (Photo by Sebastian Kahnert / DPA / dpa Picture-Alliance via AFP)

Photo: SEBASTIAN KAHNERT

At some time or another most of us will enter a maze and try and get out of it again. There's an easy way to do that, believe it or not.

Dr Katie Steckles is a Manchester-based mathematician who lectures at a university in Sheffield, speaks at science festivals, and talks on the BBC about matters mathematical as well.

She's also been at Cambridge University's Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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