Gavin Harper is a mathematician working right at the heart of genetics
(24/03/2010)
A Galileo of number theory
(16/03/2010)
The state of the Arctic
(03/03/2010)
How do you know a drug works? Should it be free on the NHS?
Plus podcast 22, February 2010: Evaluating a medical treatment
Arguably, the exponential function crops up more than any other when using mathematics to describe the physical world. In the second of two articles on physical phenomena which obey exponential laws, Ian Garbett discusses radioactive decay.
