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What is the Abel Prize?

Find out more about one of the highest honours in maths.

Maths in a minute: Correlation versus causation

Wet cats don't cause umbrellas and umbrellas don't cause wet cats.

When being wrong is right

What can we learn from the COVID crisis about finding consensus?

Maths in a minute: Percentage error

How good is your estimate?

Should people learn maths until age 18?

Here are some reasons we think it's not a bad idea.

Maths in a minute: Ensemble forecasting

How does your weather app know the percentage chance of rain? It's down to ensemble forecasting!

The Plus advent calendar 2022

Count down to Christmas with maths!

Mysterious magnetism

Where do the magnetic fields of planets and stars come from?

From rainbows to rogue waves

Discover the fascinating maths behind rainbows, rogue waves and many more applications that is being explored by researchers at the INI

Mathematical snapshots: Tosin Babasola

Tosin uses maths to guarantee the continued production of chocolate.

Maths in a minute: Dispersion

If you've ever marvelled at a rainbow, you have witnessed dispersion in action!

Give us a wave!

Ripples on a pond, the swell of ocean waves, your favourite song – these can all be described using sine waves. But how do we describe a sine wave?

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

  • What do chocolate and mayonnaise have in common? It's maths! Find out how in this podcast featuring engineer Valerie Pinfield.

  • Is it possible to write unique music with the limited quantity of notes and chords available? We ask musician Oli Freke!

  • How can maths help to understand the Southern Ocean, a vital component of the Earth's climate system?

  • Was the mathematical modelling projecting the course of the pandemic too pessimistic, or were the projections justified? Matt Keeling tells our colleagues from SBIDER about the COVID models that fed into public policy.

  • PhD student Daniel Kreuter tells us about his work on the BloodCounts! project, which uses maths to make optimal use of the billions of blood tests performed every year around the globe.