Podcast
Plus Advent Calendar Door #6: Maths takes flight
Open door number 6 and step inside a mathematical space!
Podcast
Plus Advent Calendar Door #5: Catching waves
The Fourier transform is a piece of maths that is, almost single-handedly, responsible for the digital revolution. We asked Chris Budd what the Fourier
transform does, and how it does it. This podcast accompanies the Plus
article Saving lives: The mathematics of tomography.
Podcast
Plus Advent Calendar Door #4: What is a black hole - physically?
We asked cosmologist Pau Figueras everything we’ve ever wanted to know about black holes. In this podcast he explains what black holes are, physically, and how we hope to observe them.
Article
Emmy Noether and the power of symmetry
2018 is the centenary of a mathematical result that changed the character of physics.
Podcast
Plus advent calendar door #3: How to evaluate a medical treatment
It's the time of the year for cough sweets, flu medication and paracetamol. But how do we know these and other medicines really work?
Article
Seeing Pythagoras
The great thing about geometry is that you can sometimes prove things using pictures. Enjoy these three great visual proofs of Pythagoras' theorem!
Podcast
Plus Advent Calendar Door #1: Stadium maths
Find out about what's involved in building a football stadium and why it requires listening to Belgian techno.
Collection
The Plus advent calendar 2018
If you feel like snuggling up on the sofa with your headphones in, then try our advent calendar filled with some of our favourite Plus podcasts!
Article
Seeing proof
Having trouble with algebra? Then try these visual proofs of two well-known algebraic identities.
Podcast
Packing spheres
We talk to Maryna Viazovska, who in 2016 made a breakthrough in the theory of sphere packings.
Article
Packing spheres
How to arrange oranges in higher dimensions.
Article
From an ecologist's nightmare to a mathematician's dream
Tracing the path of invading species using a famous problem in graph theory.