Articles

Crimes and earthquakesHow the maths that is used to predict earthquakes can help fight gang crime.
Elliptic cryptographyHow a special kind of curve can keep your data safe.
Maths in a minute: Pretend primesFermat's little theorem and fake primes.
From Arsenal to RSA: An interview with Marcus du SautoyMarcus du Sautoy talks about football, cryptography, and numbers.
How high is your frustum?How calculating the height of a frustum gave a glimpse of the mathematical frontier.
Another way of votingShould we let go of the "one person, one vote" principle?
Kissing the curve – manifolds in many dimensionsFollowing on from our previous article about curvature of lines and surfaces, we now move up to curvature of their higher dimensional equivalent – manifolds.
Life's quantum crystal ballDoes the ability to predict the future define the fundamental difference between living and inanimate matter?
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Mindless searchingHow stupid systems can use clever ways of finding things.
What is general relativity?To celebrate the centenary of the general theory of relativity we asked physicist David Tong to explain the theory and the equation that expresses it. Watch the video or read the article!
El Niño: What on Earth will happen next?El Niño is a climate event without equal, causing droughts, floods, hurricanes and typhoons around the globe. How can we understand and predict it?
What is a universe?What do we know about our Universe? And could there be more than one?