As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly important in our society, can philosophy offer us a way to explain decisions made by AI systems?
How far away are we from discovering alien life? And how long until we manage to create life in the lab? This episodes of Maths on the move explores these questions and more with one of our favourite astrophysicists, Mario Livio.
Groups have become a core part of the language of modern mathematics and theoretical physics. On this page, find out how groups can help describe roots of polynomials, holes on a surface, and even the laws of physics!
Group theory is the mathematics of symmetry and structure. On this page, find out what a group is and how to think about them.
Learn how lengths, areas, and volumes generalise to the concept of measure, and how this relates to integration and probability.
Some of the best mathematicians from around the world came together in Cambridge to celebrate the maths of Tim Gowers, as well as his 60th birthday!
As we head get ready for our summer holidays, we share our mathematical highlights from recent events in Spain and the UK and our recommendations for summer reading and listening!
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.
Our behaviour impacts not just our daily lives. But how do you mathematically describe the messiness of human behaviour?
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.
