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News from the world of Maths

December 16, 2015

Have physicists at CERN found a new Higgs boson?

December 15, 2015

Florence Nightingale and the power of pictures.

December 14, 2015

Are you up for the Drips challenge?

December 13, 2015

What is mathematical creativity?

December 12, 2015

Can you visit everywhere in this mathematical road trip?

December 11, 2015

Make beautiful maths with your sticky notes!

December 10, 2015

Can you make all averages equal?

December 9, 2015

Meet one of our favourite mathematicians: Manjul Bhargava!

Maths in a minute

Want facts and want them fast? Our Maths in a minute series explores key mathematical concepts in just a few words.

The growth rate of COVID-19

We all now know about R, but sometimes it can be good to consider another number: the growth rate of an epidemic.
Taking the pandemic temperature

How do people in different countries feel about the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures taken by their governments?
The agent perspective

How do we learn and understand the world? What separates us from machines? Yoshua Bengio believes it all comes down to our agency.
Maths in a minute: the Fibonacci sequence

The origin story of this famous sequences stars some cute, fluffy bunnies.
The problem with combining R ratios

We explore why you need to be extremely careful when combining the reproduction ratios of a disease in different settings, such as hospitals and the community.