Articles

Coding with linear codes (or how to avoid being eaten by crocodiles)

Can you encode a message so that errors in transmission are automatically corrected?

Maths in a minute: Poincaré and the beginnings of chaos

How a maths competition spawned the foundations of chaos theory.

Hilbert's hotel

How to squeeze infinitely many new guests into a full hotel.

Maths in a minute: The golden ratio

A quick introduction to a famous number.

Maths in a minute: Penguins

We can't let penguin awareness day pass without a look at some penguin maths.

Maths in a minute: The graph isomorphism problem

How fast can you tell whether two networks are the same?

Spontaneous spirals

Simple mathematical rules can make for some interesting psychedelic science.

Simone Biles: Defying the laws of physics?

Simone Biles stunned audiences at the 2016 Olympics with a move that appeared to defy gravity. Did it really? Two sports scientists explain the physics of the Biles.

Maths in a minute: The catenary

Chains, arches and Wembley Stadium.

Andrew Wiles: what does it feel like to do maths?

We were very excited to meet Andrew Wiles this summer! In this interview and videos he tells us what it was like to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, and what it feels like to do maths.

Maths in a minute: Fourier series

How the heat equation inspired the maths that powers the entertainment industry.

Bach and the musical Möbius strip

Discover (and listen to) the Möbius strip that's hidden within one of Bach's famous canons.