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"Find problems you enjoy, and just work on them. It doesn't matter if you never solve them." We speak to Andrew Wiles on the 30th anniversary of his announcing the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
A mathematical, and personal, look into how we all had to balance the different harms of the virus and the steps we took against it.
We love talking to young researchers and laureates at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, and this year we produced a daily video diary to take everyone behind the scenes of this special digital HLF.
In this short video Clement Twumasi tells us about his work helping to understand a parasite that has been decimating fish populations around he world.
In this short video Briane Paul Samson tells us about his work developing intelligent algorithms to help us navigate on busy roads.
In this short video Yasmeen George talks to us about her work using machine learning to help diagnose disease from medical images.
Tosin Babasola tells us about his work using maths to model the effects of climate change on cocoa production.
Spencer Becker-Kahn explains what minimal surfaces are and why he likes them.
Christian tells us how geometry can help improve methods for solving differential equations.
Harini talks about how work investigating the interaction of light and matter on the nanoscale, and some important applications.
Sophie tells us how computer algorithms that, in theory, are hopelessly inefficient, perform extraordinary well in practice.
Dragana talks about financial maths, the nature of research, and women in maths and computer science.
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Want facts and want them fast? Our Maths in a minute series explores key mathematical concepts in just a few words.
How is frequency related to pitch? Hear the music we love emerge from pure mathematical beats.
We talk to Stuart Johnston who uses mathematics to find out how noise pollution in the oceans impacts whales.
Generating electricity without the use of fossil fuels is not just an engineering and industrial challenge, it is also a huge mathematical challenge.
In this podcast author Coralie Colmez shares insights into her novel The irrational diary of Clara Valentine.
We talk to early career mathematicians who spent some of their summer holiday solving problems posed by industry — such as how to blend a perfect smoothie!