Articles

The fingernail problem and metallic numbers

A beautiful geometric problem opens the door to the world of metallic numbers.

Clearing the air: Making indoor spaces COVID safe

New research shows that ventilation is crucial and that masks are effective.

Dynamic numbers

Holly Krieger has won a Whitehead Prize for work that combines number theory and dynamical systems.

Taming complexity

Maria Bruna has won a Whitehead Prize for finding a systematic way of simplifying complex systems.

John Barrow: stories of the Universe

We remember the brilliant cosmologist, mathematician and science communicator, John D. Barrow.

Going back to uni during a pandemic

What can maths tell us about how to make universities safe from COVID-19?

Maths in a minute: N-bonacci sequences

You may have heard about the Fibonacci sequence, but have you heard of N-bonacci sequences?

Maths in three minutes: Map projections

Getting a different picture of our planet.

Unlocking the workforce

How can we all get back to work safely in the face of a lingering pandemic?

The agent perspective

How do we learn and understand the world? What separates us from machines? Yoshua Bengio believes it all comes down to our agency.

Building meaning: dog or ostrich

How do we build our models of the world? Yoshua Bengio explains how deep learning will help machines act to understand the world in a similar way.

Euler's polyhedron formulaIn this article we explores one of Leonhard Euler's most famous results.