List by Author: John D. Barrow

Outer space: Two's company, three's a crowd

Two people who get on well together can often find their relationship destabilised by the arrival of a third into their orbit.

Outer space: Relationships

Most magazines have endless articles and correspondence about relationships and you will be pleased to hear that Plus is now no different. Why?

Outer space: Wagons RollThe concept of a speed limit seems a simple one - until you think what can happen when a speed camera clocks a rotating wheel...
Outer space: Rugby and Relativity
Human beings are famously prone to error, and proof-readers are, after all, only human. But who picks up the errors a proof-reader misses? John D. Barrow challenges readers to estimate the errors that aren't found from the errors that are.
Outer space: Independence DayHuman beings are famously prone to error, and proof-readers are, after all, only human. But who picks up the errors a proof-reader misses? John D. Barrow challenges readers to estimate the errors that aren't found from the errors that are.
Chaos in Numberland: The secret life of continued fractionsOne of the most striking and powerful means of presenting numbers is completely ignored in the mathematics that is taught in schools, and it rarely makes an appearance in university courses. Yet the continued fraction is one of the most revealing representations of many numbers, sometimes containing extraordinary patterns and symmetries. John D. Barrow explains.