Abstract Thursday

There's no set theme for AT this week so I thought I'd do something topical.

UK blippers will know that our Prime Minister has just given a speech where he described his aspirations for the coming year. He's keen that all schoolkids should study "maths" up to the age of 18. I hope he means that they should leave school with good standards of numeracy and a reasonable grasp of how to interpret statistics so as not to be too easily confused by spurious false data and conclusions.

Anyway this set me thinking of how I don't find complex mathematical equations easy to follow - my eyes tend to glaze over and my brain goes into a spin. (I did do well in Additional Maths at O-level at age 15 but that was "n" years ago where "n" is a rather large number!) Having a son with a PhD in Pure Mathematics rather shows up my inadequacies in this sphere!

Anyway, this is an abstract representation of how I feel when presented with a page of formulae. I found it on the web, printed it out, photographed it and then messed around with it!

Thanks so much to Ingeborg for continuing to host this fab challenge.