2. Let’s face it: Telecom giant AT&T both loves and hates Apple’s iPhone.
True, the device is a clear draw to consumers. As we recently saw, AT&T informed investors it will set an all-time record for smartphone sales in its current quarter, and the iPhone was probably no small player in helping AT&T achieve this impressive feat, as we now know the new iPhones sold like hot cakes in their first weekend on the market.
However, investors weren’t as enthusiastic about the news as one might expect and promptly sold the stock off. Why? Because while a blessing over the long term, heavily subsidized smartphones like the iPhone can be a curse to AT&T’s margins in the short term.
- AT&T’s Love-Hate Relationship With the iPhone Continues, DailyFinance.com, September 25, 2013.
3. From the age of 14, Ian Stewart would scour newsagents’ shelves for his monthly fix: the maths puzzle in the Scientific American. From the column Mathematical Games he’d learn rudimentary artificial intelligence: how to make a robot from 25 matchboxes and 116 jellybeans. He’d acquire basic geometry: how to link different wooden shapes so they’d create the perfect cube. And he’d pick up a skill for which 50 years later he’d be rewarded: how to entertainingly communicate maths to the public.
Today, at the Science Museum in London, Stewart, professor of maths at the University of Warwick, will receive the Christopher Zeeman medal for public engagement in mathematics. It will be the first medal specifically given to a mathematician in the UK for promoting maths to the public. Recognition of Stewart’s gift in communicating “the scope, power and sheer joy” of being a mathematician is long overdue, says David Abrahams, president of the Institute of Mathematics.
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