List by Author: Marianne Freiberger

How can we use mathematics to model the spread of a disease?

The doubling time of a disease is the time it takes for the number of cases of the disease to double. How do you calculate it?

What is the growth rate and what does it tell us about an epidemic?

Don't like plant-based meat alternatives, but want to spare animals and the environment? There's hope on the horizon, aided by a good helping of maths.

We guide you through an exciting recent breakthrough in the world of topology, involving something called the telescope conjecture.

We continue our exploration of the telescope conjecture.

This beautiful version of geometry was developed to keep track of things that move! Here's a very brief introduction.

Andrew Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem solved a centuries-old problem by opening a door onto the future of mathematics.

Some practical tips to help you when you need it most – when you are sitting at the keyboard, ready (or perhaps not so ready) to put your ideas on the page!

Ice, food, and invisibility cloaks — meet the maths that links them together!

The BloodCounts! project is gearing up towards one of the largest-scale applications yet of machine learning in medicine and healthcare.