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Stuff Happens: Ordering history in computer science
Our digital lives rely on distributed computer systems, such as the internet, but understanding the order of events in such systems is not always straightforward. Leslie Lamport explains how special relativity helped him order events in computer science, enabling the development of distributed computing.
Fourier transforms of images
How to make images out of ripples of pixels...
Women of mathematics
Celebrate female mathematicians with this selection of interviews and videos, which accompany the Women of Mathematics photo exhibition.
Who's watching: Context is everything
Imagine your weight depended on the colour of your underwear! Something quite similar may be happening when you are measuring things in quantum physics. Find out more here...
Strategic dating: The 37% rule
Are you stumped by the dating game? Never fear — Plus is here! This article looks at one of the central questions of dating: how many people should you date before settling for something serious?
Fantastic Fibonacci
Bees do it, rabbits do it, and luckily, we humans can do it too: explore the famous Fibonacci sequence!
Watch and learn?
Can the very act of observing something change what's being observed? This series of articles and videos explores some basic questions about the role of the observers in physics.
The shape of things to come: part i
This year's Nobel Prize for Physics brings together the physics of materials with one of our favourite areas of maths – topology.
The mathematics of kindness
If only the fittest survive, how can we explain the evolution of altruism? Mathematics has some answers.
Introducing Andrew Wiles
In these two short videos the legendary Andrew Wiles talks about what it was like to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, and what it feels like to do maths.
Image © Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation / Flemming – 2016
The formula that plots (almost) everything
Explore one of the most amazing formulas in maths!
Outer space: Archimedean ice cream cones
What shape of cone maximises the ice cream to wafer ratio?
Remembering Maryam Mirzakhani
The brilliant mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani has died aged just 40.
Going for gold in London
To join in the excitement of the world athletics championships, we bring you some articles, a puzzle, and a little something on infectious diseases.
LIGO detects a new gravitational wave
The newly observed ripple in spacetime will help us unlock some of the secrets of the Universe.
Overbooking: How to avoid plane rage
The practice of overbooking has made uncomfortable headlines lately. But how do airlines decide how many tickets to sell for a flight? Here's the maths.
Happy birthday to the Isaac Newton Institute!
The Institute is celebrating 25 years of bringing researchers together!
'Nice numbers'
This book leads you through the digits that you meet in every-day life, how they came to be, and what makes them nice.