Time to go retroA model of backward causation in which the future affects the past could help unite quantum mechanics and general relativity – and satisfy a challenge thrown down almost a century ago by Arthur Eddington.
The cosmic family treeMapping the ancestral history of spacetime in an effort to unite quantum mechanics and general relativity.
Is gravity time's archer?A new model argues the forces between particles in the early universe loosed time’s arrow, creating temporal order from chaos.
The Basel problemThis problem about an infinite sum has a surprising answer.
Euler's polyhedron formulaThis surprising result about 3D shapes tells us something deep about the nature of space.
The 36 officers problemEuler 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 tourCan 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 KönigsbergCan 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 7sJames Maynard, one of the prize winners at the European Congress of Mathematics 2016, 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 waterSara 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.
