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The beautiful game (theory) of why penalty takers ignore statistics

Why penalty takers not heed the advice of statisticians? We find out with a little game theory.

Relevelling the playing field: Football sweepstakes revisited

Make your sweepstake for the Euros fairer and more exciting!

Maths in a minute: Partition functions

How many ways can you write a number as the sum of smaller numbers?  

Differential privacy: Keeping your data safe

The age of Big Data poses a risk to our privacy as even anonymised data can sometimes be linked to individuals. Differential privacy provides a way of protecting sensitive information even when some of it is made public.

Maths in a minute: Stochastic gradient descent

How does artificial intelligence manage to produce reliable outputs? Stochastic gradient descent has the answer!

Keeping your data safe in the face of AI

The advent of artificial intelligence poses new threats to the privacy of our personal data.  We explore the challenges and a way to address them.

Generative AI: Examples of the future?

Here's a tour of some of the interesting things generative AI has achieved recently — from Hollywood to advertising!

AI and GoPro physics

Will AI one day be able to spot the equation that describes a physical process just by looking at a video of it? 

GO-Science National Numeracy Day challenge!

We're helping the Government Office for Science (GO Science) to bring you an Olympic challenge for National Numeracy Day! 

The murmuration conjecture: finding new maths with AI

Artificial intelligence is changing all our lives - even the lives of mathematicians.  Yang-Hui He tells us about his exciting new conjecture that came about due to both artificial and human intelligence, and reveals patterns in the prime numbers that look like flocks of birds.

Happy Women in Maths Day!

We celebrate Women in Mathematics Day with a look at three amazing women from the history of mathematics.

Heads, Bayes wins!

If you've flipped heads 10 times what's the next flip most likely to be?  Bayes' theorem has the answer, not just for the coin, but for the pursuit of science generally.