Articles

The 36 officers problem

Euler may not have cracked this problem completely, but it led to a lot of important work, including on what we today know as sudoku.

The knight's tour

Can you move a knight on a chessboard so that it visits every square exactly once? Euler was one of the first to analyse this problem systematically, but some questions about it are still open today.

The bridges of Königsberg

Can you find a path through on this city map that crosses every bridge exactly once? Euler's answer to this problem started off the filed of graph theory.

Primes without 7s

James Maynard, one of the prize winners at the European Congress of Mathematics, is counting primes that don't have 7s in them. But why?

What do you think?

Mathematicians explore how opinions spread through a society.

Blood, oil and water

Sara Zahedi has won a prestigious prize at the European Congress of Maths. Your future medical diagnoses, and even the welfare of sea life, may depend on her work.

Some highlights from the ECM 2016

Prime numbers, fluid dynamics and architecture at the European Congress of Mathematics in Berlin.

The Higgs mechanism

How to get massive particles from gold.

The weak force and massive particles

After having explored our economic analogy for the force of electromagnetism, let us turn to the weak force.

Electromagnetic economics

Now let's look at the economic analogy for electromagnetism.

The economic analogy

Here's the economic model we'll use as an analogy for gauge symmetry.

A brief introduction to electromagnetism

We'll start our series of articles with a look at the force of electromagnetism.