Physicists have figured out how we might detect hypothetical boson stars. If we do, then this would count as a major step towards solving the riddle of dark matter,
Experts in public health, industry and disease modelling came together this summer to discuss how maths can prepare for the next pandemic.
Trying to solve a Rubik's cube? A Cayley graph gives you a road map for doing this — and is similarly useful for dealing with any other type of mathematical group!
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly important in our society, can philosophy offer us a way to explain decisions made by AI systems?
Learn how lengths, areas, and volumes generalise to the concept of measure, and how this relates to integration and probability.
Frederick Manners has won a prestigious EMS Prize at the European Congress of Mathematics 2024 for, among other things, a problem involving pyjamas.
Find out what it means for a shape to have fractional dimension.
Tom Hutchcroft has won a prestigious EMS Prize at the European Congress of Mathematics 2024, for work on mathematical models that can help us figure out phase transitions.
Richard Montgomery has won a prestigious EMS Prize at the European Congress of Mathematics 2024 for work on objects so ubiquitous in everyday life it's easy to forget they're mathematical: networks.
The ninth European Congress of Mathematics has kicked off in Seville, Spain, and we're here too!
This article describes how you can describe the entire universe of Riemann tori (surfaces that look like dooughnuts) in one go.
A Riemann torus is a surface that looks like a doughnut. This articles explored how you might tell Riemann tori apart.
