Articles

speaker
Why you need maths to danceWhen sound waves leave your speaker they wreak havoc with mathematics.
prism
Studying scattered wavesIce, food, and invisibility cloaks — meet the maths that links them together!
blood cell illustration
Revolutionising the power of blood tests using AIThe BloodCounts! project is gearing up towards one of the largest-scale applications yet of machine learning in medicine and healthcare.
icon
Maths in a minute: OptimisationMaths can help you make the best of things!
penguin
The lungs of the EarthHow can maths help to understand the Southern Ocean, a vital component of the Earth's climate system?
Julia Gog
Julia Gog's mathematical toolkit for pandemicsA mathematical, and personal, look into how we all had to balance the different harms of the virus and the steps we took against it.
Daniel Kreuter
Mathematical snapshots: Daniel KreuterPhD student Daniel Kreuter tells us about his work on the BloodCounts! project, which uses maths to make optimal use of the billions of blood tests performed every year around the globe.
aliens
Maths in a minute: Peano arithmeticHow would you explain the natural numbers to an alien devoid of a number instinct? You could try Peano arithmetic...
icon
More than maths: Understanding infectious diseases in care homesSome diseases spread far more quickly in care homes and other settings with vulnerable people. How can maths help? And what help does maths need?
pool balls
Playing billiards on strange tablesWeird and wonderful things can happen when you set a ball in motion on a billiard table — and the theory of mathematical billiards has recently seen a breakthrough.
vaccine
Learning from COVID: How good was the UK's vaccination strategy?Was vaccinating vulnerable people first a good choice? Hindsight allows us to assess this question.
Caffarelli
The Abel Prize 2023: Luis A. CaffarelliThis year's Abel Prize goes to Luis A. Caffarelli for a body of work on the maths of change.