How is AI impacting mathematics today? Geordie Williamson tells us about recent work resulting from genuine collaboration between human and machine.
Jacob Tsimerman has won a Fields Medal for taming wild mathematical structures in algebraic geometry.
What do sound waves, snow flakes and spinning needles have in common? The answer is the mathematics of Hong Wang, who has just won a Fields Medal at the 2026 ICM.
Disruptions to public services are annoying – but that data about these disruptions is more useful than you might think.
How do mathematicians help policy makers make the best decisions?
We meet some of the researchers who are trying to translate between the two very different worlds of mathematics and politics.
The mathematics of the future needs more specialist maths teachers, stronger university provision, and sustained research funding.
Researchers, policy makers and communicators have distilled out some key principles for making mathematical research more useful for policy makers.
A story from geometry shows how developments in mathematics have fundamentally changed the way we think about the world around us.
This article explores this most beautiful of numbers. Find out its definition, why its value can only ever be approximated, what it has to do with waves, and why it contains the history of the Universe.
One of the most important mathematicians of her time, Noether also proved a fundamental result in physics.
Ingenious uses of maths have provided the key to internet security, but how can we secure our digital lives in the face of quantum computing?
