Football matches in top European leagues are becoming more predictable

15 December 2021

Computer predictions for the outcome of European football matches over a 26-year period become more accurate in recent years

Algorithms

1 December 2021

Originally a way of solving complicated equations with moving variables, the modern definition of an algorithm is morphing

Emmy Noether

21 June 2021

Emmy Noether is famous for Noether’s theorem, which says that symmetries in the universe give rise to mathematical conservation laws

Mathematicians who unravelled computational complexity win Abel prize

17 March 2021

László Lovász and Avi Wigderson have jointly been awarded the Abel prize, which is sometimes called the Nobel prize of mathematics, for their “foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics”

Trippy maths program could help figure out the shape of the universe

10 January 2020

Mathematicians have come up with a way to explore strange 3D spaces that could be related to the shape of the universe

What is MRP and can it predict the result of the UK general election?

27 November 2019

A statistical technique called multi-level regression and post-stratification (MRP) correctly predicted the last UK election when other polls failed. This is how it works

Probability

3 July 2019

Galileo Galilei

25 June 2019

The founder of modern physics

Isaac Newton

24 June 2019

One of the founders of modern physics

Sophie Germain

18 June 2019

Mathematician who was the first woman to win a prize from France