Imaging maths - Inside the Klein bottle

September 2003

Möbius Band

The Möbius band is one-sided

Maths in a minute

Want facts and want them fast? Our Maths in a minute series explores key mathematical concepts in just a few words.

What is pharmaceutical statistics?

What do statisticians do in the pharmaceutical industry?
Maths and politics

Mathematicians like to think that their field transcends politics, but as this brief history of the International Congress of Mathematicians shows, international mathematics has always been coloured by world events.
Tools made of light win 2018 Nobel prize in physics

Revolutionary laser tools built that have changed our lives have won the Nobel prize in physics.
Blockchain: Spreading trust

Bitcoin is a digital currency that isn't regulated by any kind of central authority. The structure which allows this decentralisation is called blockchain. But how, and how well, does it work?
The ICM 2018

The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) took place in Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of August. Here is all our coverage at a glance.