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Maths in a minute
Maths in a minute: The Poisson distribution
What's the chance that something happens?
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Maths in a minute: The binomial distribution
Measuring your chance of success.
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Maths in a minute: QALYs
What's a quality adjusted life year, or QALY?
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Maths in a Minute: Turbulence and the Reynolds number
How does a smooth flow suddenly become turbulent? The Reynolds number helps understand the transition.
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Maths in a Minute: Fluid dynamics and the Euler equations
How does water, or indeed any fluid, move? The Euler equations let us look beneath the surface and mark the beginning of modern fluid dynamics.
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Maths in a minute: Asymptotic expansions
Approximating a function with a divergent series.
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Maths in a minute: Maths and music
Explore the connections between maths and music!
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Maths in a Minute: Category theory
A quick introduction to an abstract concept that's useful in anything from genetics to cosmology.
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Maths in a Minute: The wagon wheel effect
Have you ever noticed the strange phenomenon of wheels appearing to move backwards while the vehicle is moving forwards? Aadit Jain explains why!
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Maths in a minute: Semi-supervised machine learning
Machine learning started with supervised learning and us providing all the training materials, but we are finding ways for algorithms to learn with far fewer resources.
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Maths in a minute: The prime number theorem
A quick look at one of the most important theorems in number theory.
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Maths in a minute: Gradient descent algorithms
Whether you're lost on a mountainside, or training a neural network, you can rely on the gradient descent algorithm to show you the way!
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