News from the world of Maths
May 27, 2016
Nira Chamberlain tells us how solving difficult maths problems can be like fighting an invisible boxer.
May 5, 2016
Where does our ability to do abstract maths come from? A new study sheds some fascinating light on the question.
April 29, 2016
Vicky explains how maths is an adventure that's really worth having.
April 29, 2016
You may not have heard his name, but you're making use of his work
every single day: Claude Shannon, hailed the father of the
information age, would have turned 100 this week.
April 26, 2016
A very strange way of explaining away the strangeness of quantum mechanics.
April 22, 2016
Carola tells us about her work in the field of image analysis, her favourite mathematical moments, and why creativity is so important in maths.
April 12, 2016
Why a time-honoured statistical tool is becoming problematic.
March 29, 2016
Using the trajectory of a billiard ball to assign customers to queues.