Articles

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

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

John Barrow: stories of the UniverseWe remember the brilliant cosmologist, mathematician and science communicator, John D. Barrow.

Going back to uni during a pandemicWhat can maths tell us about how to make universities safe from COVID-19?

Maths in a minute: N-bonacci sequencesYou may have heard about the Fibonacci sequence, but have you heard of N-bonacci sequences?

Maths in three minutes: Map projectionsGetting 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 perspectiveHow 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 ostrichHow 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 formula

Life, choice, and other problemsWe explore some problems physics as we know it has trouble dealing with and a new theory that may provide answers.

Understanding information

Information is supremely powerful, yet it can't be described by traditional physics. Constructor theory provides a potential answer.