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Last 50 Posts

• The Mathematics of Fair Play in Video Games April 2, 2020
• Bang! Bang! Bang! Explosively Large Numbers March 26, 2020
• Covid-19: Modelling the evolution of a viral outbreak March 19, 2020
• Samuel Haughton and the Twelve Faithless Hangmaids March 12, 2020
• Samuel Haughton and the Humane Drop March 5, 2020
• Zhukovsky’s Airfoil February 27, 2020
• How many numbers begin with a 1? More than 30%! February 20, 2020
• A Ring of Water Shows the Earth’s Spin February 13, 2020
• Using Maths to Reduce Aircraft Noise February 6, 2020
• The Rambling Roots of Wilkinson’s Polynomial January 30, 2020
• Adjoints of Vector Operators January 23, 2020
• The “extraordinary talent and superior genius” of Sophie Germain January 16, 2020
• Grad, Div and Curl on Weather Maps: a Gateway to Vector Analysis January 9, 2020
• The knotty problem of packing DNA January 2, 2020
• Divergent Series Yield Valuable Results December 26, 2019
• Having your Christmas Cake and Eating it December 19, 2019
• The Intermediate Axis Theorem December 12, 2019
• A New Mathematical Discovery from Neutrino Physics December 5, 2019
• Archimedes and the Volume of a Sphere November 28, 2019
• Airport Baggage Screening with X-Ray Tomography November 21, 2019
• Elliptic Trigonometry: Fun with “sun”, “cun” and “dun” November 14, 2019
• The Vastness of Mathematics: No One Knows it All November 7, 2019
• An Attractive Spinning Toy: the Phi-TOP October 31, 2019
• Some Fundamental Theorems of Maths October 24, 2019
• Maths and Poetry: Beauty is the Link October 17, 2019
• The Wonders of Complex Analysis October 10, 2019
• Emergence of Complex Behaviour from Simple Roots October 3, 2019
• Zeroing in on Zeros September 26, 2019
• George Salmon, Mathematician & Theologian September 19, 2019
• Spiralling Primes September 12, 2019
• An English Lady with a Certain Taste September 5, 2019
• ToplDice is Markovian August 29, 2019
• The curious behaviour of the Wilberforce Spring. August 22, 2019
• The Brief and Tragic Life of Évariste Galois August 15, 2019
• Stokes’s 200th Birthday Anniversary August 8, 2019
• Algorithms: Recipes for Success August 1, 2019
• Billiards & Ballyards July 25, 2019
• Learning Maths without even Trying July 18, 2019
• Boxes and Loops July 11, 2019
• What did the Romans ever do for Maths? July 4, 2019
• Cumbersome Calculations in Ancient Rome June 27, 2019
• Simple Curves that Perplex Mathematicians and Inspire Artists June 20, 2019
• Bernard Bolzano, a Voice Crying in the Wilderness June 13, 2019
• Spin-off Effects of the Turning Earth June 6, 2019
• Symplectic Geometry May 30, 2019
• Chase and Escape: Pursuit Problems May 23, 2019
• The Rise and Rise of Women in Mathematics May 16, 2019
• Bouncing Billiard Balls Produce Pi May 9, 2019
• Kepler’s Vanishing Circles Hidden in Hamilton’s Hodograph May 2, 2019
• K3 implies the Inverse Square Law. April 25, 2019