If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

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He was Rector of the University of Glasgow from 1993 to 1996. science" in London for suggesting that climate change is not anthropogenic. In 2012 the 74 year old Ball was announced as one of the 14 celebrities who would take part in the Strictly Come Dancing TV show.

Johnny Ball (born 23 May 1938) is a British television personality a populariser of mathematics and the father of BBC Radio 2 DJ Zoë Ball.