by Anna Manning | 26 January 2023 | Blog
How currency conversion on holiday led to a discovery of magnanimous numbers
by Anna Manning | 21 January 2023 | Blog
How a trip to Barbados brought me into contact with numbers that bring joy.
by Anna Manning | 16 December 2022 | Blog
How my efforts to get my Christmas cards out on time led to the discovery of self numbers.
by Anna Manning | 6 December 2022 | Blog
How my favourite crime novels led to the discovery of some beautiful numbers!
by Anna Manning | 29 November 2022 | Blog
How the membership of a local history society led to an understanding of aspiring numbers
by Anna Manning | 17 November 2022 | Blog
In Chester, where I live in Northwest England, we are preparing for a by-election on the 1st December where we will elect a new Member of Parliament (MP). Our previous MP resigned and it has been a rush to nominate candidates and canvass for all parties. The MP for...
by Anna Manning | 27 October 2022 | Blog
By September 2022 most people I knew had had COVID-19. In our house we had somehow managed to avoid it. However, come the beginning of October, we had both tested positive and were very ill. Now we have both tested negative and feel quite a bit better but still have...
by Anna Manning | 7 October 2022 | Blog
Each post that I have written has been inspired by a number that has occurred naturally during my everyday life. My husband, Howard, and I were cycling out for lunch on what may well be the last sunny day of the year in the UK. Our table at our chosen pub just...
by Anna Manning | 5 September 2022 | Blog
We donโt have enough doctors in the UK: weโre about 12,000 short of where we (apparently) should be. In 2019, 8,730 students graduated with a medical degree in the UK. There is a cap on the number as the training is subsidised by the government and also the students...
by Anna Manning | 14 August 2022 | Blog
In my previous blog post I described a caravan trip to Anglesey, Wales with my husband (Howard). Anglesey was very famous for its copper mining and we went to Copper Kingdom at Amlwch to look at the museum there, to see how copper is extracted and to see the remains...