In this year's advent calendar we revisit some of our favourite episodes of our Maths on the move podcast! We're lucky to get to speak to lots of interesting mathematicians throughout the year, and our podcast captures many of those fascinating conversations, explores the maths people do, and why they love doing it.
Whether it's the wonders of AI, the uncertainty of chance, or the beauty of pure maths, we hope you enjoy this selection of Maths on the move episodes!
Find out about this important new technology and be part of the conversation.
Find out how a story starting with the simple notion of counting ends in a revolutionary new way of doing maths that uses computers to harness the power of human collaboration!
Artificial intelligence is changing all our lives - even the lives of mathematicians! Yang-Hui He tells us about his exciting new conjecture, developed with the help of AI, that reveals patterns in the prime numbers that look like flocks of birds.
We're helping the Government Office for Science to bring you an Olympic challenge for National Numeracy Day!
Group theory is the mathematics of symmetry and structure. On this page, find out what a group is and how to think about them.
If a shape has equal sides and all 90 degree angles then it's a square, right? Well, wrong! Find out how to draw right-angled triangles and even pentagons in this short article.
Meet the number that's bigger than the observable Universe!
The beautiful rose curve has an odd pattern to the number of its petals – this student and teacher team explain why...
The golden ratio has many amazing properties. But is it really a secret of nature and the epitome of beauty?
We explore the maths that helps explain this well-known phenomenon, which says that any two people around the world are likely to be connected through a surprisingly short chain of acquaintance links.
Random walks are great for modelling anything that moves, from particles to people. They're also fun, versatile and beautiful!
Yolanne Lee, A PhD student for the maths4DL research project, tells us about what she thinks AI will be able to do in the near future, what it has to do with cats and dogs, and how music provided her first experience of science.
Julian Sahasrabudhe wins a Whitehead Prize for combining different areas of maths using the power of combinatorics.
When a new infectious disease enters a population everything depends on who catches it — superspreaders or people with few contacts who don't pass it on. We investigate the stochastic nature of the early stages of an outbreak.
Worried about your population of bugs? A branching process can help you understand it.
Experts in public health, industry and disease modelling came together this summer to discuss how maths can prepare for the next pandemic.
Trying to solve a Rubik's cube? A Cayley graph gives you a road map for doing this — and is similarly useful for dealing with any other type of mathematical group!
