The overall goal of Next Gen is to inspire and give opportunities to students to chase their dreams. In the classroom, maths is all about getting exam results, whereas here it's just to have fun and to explore. All of our exhibits are as hands-on and interactive as possible, so we're hoping that they see maths in a different light. Today, Simon Singh has visited us and done an amazing talk on Fermat's last theorem as a celebration of the relationship between GResearch and Maths World, but also GResearch and King's Math School. For me, it was very natural to explain the mathematics, but then also tell the stories as well. We've got some heroic stories in mathematics, and we should celebrate those stories and be proud to be part of that community, whatever we do, whether we're just a journalist like me, or whether we're doing research, or whether we're a student. All the answers that Simon asked them, someone in the audience was able to give a fantastic answer, a technical answer, which at that age is not something you expect. I'm flabbergasted. Mathematics is the bedrock, the foundation on which techniques such as AI and more specifically machine learning all are based on. If we focus on the foundations, the building becomes strong and hence why we chose Maths World.
