The Isaac Newton Institute: Creating eureka moments

When you pluck a guitar string it vibrates at many resonant frequencies at once. What might that look like? Find out with our animation.

The Laplacian operator turns up all over maths.  Here's a reasonably light-touch introduction and a look at why it forms part of the wave equation.

Can you hear the shape of a drum? The question leads to surprisingly rich mathematics that has a huge rage of applications. Find out more with this collection of content.

If you sprinkle sand on a vibrating plate it forms the most beautiful patterns. We explore why that happens, what it has to do with mathematical pioneer Sophie Germain, and how the question opens up a huge range of maths.

The sound of a plucked string depends on how long it is, so you can hear the length of a string. But can you hear the shape of a drum? 

Mathematics as a family event? Listen to one family explain how they worked together to prove a new result in group theory.

Around 1,000 articles are published on arXiv every day — from the proof of the Poincaré Conjecture to research from AI companies like DeepSeek and Gemini. In this podcast we go behind the scenes to learn what it takes to run such a huge mathematical institution.

The new IMU President tells us why it's important to have an International Congress of Mathematicians and about the role of the IMU.

How do you make people care about mathematics?  We speak to Hannah Fry, winner of the  Leelavati Prize at the 2026 ICM.

How is AI impacting mathematics today?  Geordie Williamson tells us about recent work resulting from genuine collaboration between human and machine.

Fields Medallist Wendelin Werner loves Brownian loop soups. In the second part of this article, we learn more about why they matter so much.

Fields Medallist Wendelin Werner loves Brownian loop soups. We explore what they are, why he finds them so "natural", and how they are linked to the physics of elementary particles.