For the last 20+ years, Dr. Budd has run a module at the University of — Christopher Budd (mathematician)

"On the whole, mathematicians dont have a particularly great image."

"The technology that we celebrate today, everything we do, is all heavily based on math. In my pocket I have my ... absolutely stuffed full of mathematics, and lots of mathematicians work in the smart phone industry."

"[T]he shame about all of this is not only is it not true. Its really, really, really not true! ...Math is basically the basis of the modern world. The modern world would simply not exist without mathematics."

"If there wasnt air around me, Id die very very quickly... and math is like that for technology. Take the math away, the technology fails, but just like the air around us its invisible, and lots of people dont know its there."

"The was... one of the first scientific research establishments in the U.K. ...They reckon about 30 elements were discovered in the Royal Institution. A number of s came out of the Royal Institution. Humphry Davy worked in the Royal Institution, the Braggs [William Henry and Lawrence]... [etc.,] but possibly the most famous... was... Michael Faraday... [H]e discovered experimentally the link between electricity and magnetism and... essentially invented the and the , and those have then been developed by people like Edison and Tesla into the power generation system we so celebrate today."

"[S]ome people are... quite frightened of math, or even... suspicious of math."