John D. Barrow

Are records predictable in any way?

Two people who get on well together can often find their relationship destabilised by the arrival of a third into their orbit.

Most magazines have endless articles and correspondence about relationships and you will be pleased to hear that Plus is now no different. Why?

The concept of a speed limit seems a simple one - until you think what can happen when a speed camera clocks a rotating wheel...

Human beings are famously prone to error, and proof-readers are, after all, only human. But who picks up the errors a proof-reader misses? John D. Barrow challenges readers to estimate the errors that aren't found from the errors that are.

Human beings are famously prone to error, and proof-readers are, after all, only human. But who picks up the errors a proof-reader misses? John D. Barrow challenges readers to estimate the errors that aren't found from the errors that are.

One of the most striking and powerful means of presenting numbers is completely ignored in the mathematics that is taught in schools, and it rarely makes an appearance in university courses. Yet the continued fraction is one of the most revealing representations of many numbers, sometimes containing extraordinary patterns and symmetries. John D. Barrow explains.