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ICM 2018 begins: and the winners are....
The International Congress of Mathematicians 2018 has got off to a joyous start with the announcement of some of the most prestigious prizes in mathematics.
How to tame uncertainty
You may not know it, but you are relying on mathematical models many times every day. But models come with uncertainties — how to we get to grips with them?
Who's watching: The limits of observation
Physics is all about observation, but how much can we actually see? We explore some of the limits of observation — be they natural, scientific, political, or down to the fuzzy quantum nature of reality.
Welcome to the FIFA World Cup!
From making penalties fairer or taking the perfect free kick, to designing an ideal ball and predicting results using an octopus, it's all there in our collection of football articles. Take your pick!
Arithmetic billiards
Stuck on your arithmetic? Try a billiard table!
Citizen science: Schumann resonances
Find out about the resonant electromagnetic waves circling the Earth, created by lightning.
The maths of randomness
Probability theory – the maths of randomness – makes sense. Fields medallist Martin Hairer explains.
Who's watching: The cosmic microwave background
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is light left over from the Big Bang. It has revealed a wealth of information about our Universe and turned cosmology into a precision science. How can a single picture tell us so much?
Celebrating Stephen Hawking
On the sad news of Stephen Hawking's passing we look at his professional life and work. The image shows Hawking enjoying zero gravity in 2007 and is courtesy NASA.
Energetic maths
How maths can help keep the lights on!
The Fields Medal 2018: Caucher Birkar
Caucher Birkar has been awarded the Fields medal for his contribution to algebraic geometry.
The Fields Medal 2018: Alessio Figalli
Alessio Figalli has been awarded the Fields medal for his contributions, among other things, to optimal transport theory.
The Fields Medal 2018: Akshay Venkatesh
Akshay Venkatesh has been awarded the Fields medal 2018 for his work exploring the boundaries of number theory.
The Fields Medal 2018: Peter Scholze
Peter Scholze has received the Fields medal 2018 for transforming arithmetic algebraic geometry.
Elusive equilibria
Nevanlinna Prize winner Constantinos Daskalakis tells us why equilibrium may be unattainable and what that means in practice.
The Chern Medal 2018: Masaki Kashiwara
Masaki Kashiwara wins the Chern medal for his contributions to algebraic analysis and representation theory
An interview with June Barrow-Green
We talk to June Barrow-Green about the history of women in mathematics.
An interview with Clément Mouhot
Clément Mouhot tells us about trying to understand some of the most beautiful structures in maths and physics.