List by Author: Rachel Thomas

A hundred years ago Ramanujan was elected FRS. Here is a look at the maths that gained him the title.

Peter Scholze has received the Fields medal 2018 for transforming arithmetic algebraic geometry.

Physics is all about observation. But how much can we actually see with the naked eye?

The limits to what we can observe are not only a matter of science, but also of politics and economics.

Observing the smallest building blocks of matter doesn't involve seeing in the ordinary sense.

There are limits to how much you can simultaneously squeeze the quantum fuzziness of an electron's position and momentum

Cambridge researchers, the BBC, and thousands of citizen scientists have created a revolutionary infectious disease data set.

Cambridge mathematicians and physicists remember their most famous colleague with fondness.

Robert Langlands wins for his "visionary program".

Take part in an exciting new project and help fight future pandemics!

Here we present a worked example of a distributed system in action, to illustrate Leslie Lamport's rules of ordering history using logical clocks.

Leslie Lamport explains how he used logical clocks to set history straight in distributed systems.