News from the world of Maths
March 14, 2014
We love every number equally but there is no denying the fame, ubiquity and usefulness of the number pi…
March 10, 2014
How chickens' eyes solve a subtle maths problem.
March 7, 2014
Tomorrow is International Women's Day, and it got us wondering… could this be the year we finally have a female winner of a Fields Medal?
March 4, 2014
A clever statistical technique helped the Kepler mission to find the huge haul of new planets it announced last week.
March 4, 2014
The funeral of the great flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucía this week reminded us of the mathematical and musical reasons we love flamenco.
March 4, 2014
"[String theory] has led us in strange directions that we couldn't conceive of; it's revealed depths of mathematical structure that we couldn't have anticipated". Watch a video interview with Professor Michael Green, winner of the 2014 Fundamental Physics Prize.
February 27, 2014
We've read the book. We've bought the T-shirt. And now, finally, here it is: the movie of one of our favourite maths problems