
Articles


The expression that (nearly) explained the Universe

Thinking outside the box

How maths killed Lehman Brothers

Beauty in mathematics

Understanding uncertainty: The many ways of spinning risk
Would you prefer a game with a 90% chance of winning, or one with a 10% chance of losing? You might scratch your head and say it's the same thing, and you'd be right, but research has shown that people's perception of risk is surprisingly vulnerable to the way it's presented. In this article David Spiegelhalter and Mike Pearson explore how risk can be spun and there's an interactive animation for you to have a go yourself.

Editorial

Outer space: When errors snowball

Restoring profanity

Sundaram's Sieve

Births and deaths in fluid chaos
Describing the motion of fluids is a huge and unsolved mathematical problem. There are equations that seem to describe it well, but their complete solution is way beyond reach. But could there be a simpler method? The physicist Jerry Gollub tells Plus about a new discovery which combines experiment with sophisticated maths.
