AI should be seen as an ally to human mathematicians, not a threat
8 June 2022
AI is becoming smarter all the time, but mathematicians needn't fear they will be replaced by machine intelligence, argues Junaid Mubeen
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Why maths should move on from the ancient Greeks
24 November 2021
Many people experience maths anxiety and some even mention feelings of "rage and despair". One way to improve the subject's perception is by playing down the Platonists, suggests Michael Brooks
Babylonians calculated with triangles centuries before Pythagoras
4 August 2021
Over a millennium before the Greek philosopher Pythagoras, Babylonian surveyors were using Pythagorean triangles to accurately share out farmland
Lisa Piccirillo: How I cracked a 50-year-old maths problem in a week
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Solving the Conway knot problem took mathematician Lisa Piccirillo on a journey into the fourth dimension. Here's how she did it
We're still untangling Ramanujan's mathematics 100 years after he died
22 April 2020
Srinivisa Ramanujan’s ideas seemed to come from a parallel universe and mathematicians are still getting to grips with them today, say Ken Ono and Robert Schneider
Don't miss: Maternal artworks, blooming islands and rewarding maths
5 February 2020
This week, catch the last few days of an art show that gives mothers their due, explore a land of orchids and discover how loving maths makes us better people
Newyddion gwych! Maths predicts that Welsh language is set to thrive
8 January 2020
The Welsh language, spoken by around half a million people today, is expected to “thrive in the long term”, based on a model looking at how proficiency in languages changes over time
The Tenth Muse review: A story in which the women count
7 November 2019
In her new historical novel, Catherine Chung celebrates the women who shaped modern mathematics - and wonders why they weren't paid
How to think about... Logic
27 June 2018
Is the sentence ‘this sentence is false’ true or false? The difficulty our messy brains have answering that goes to the heart of what logic is – and isn’t
More penalty shoot-outs needed to make future World Cups fairer
21 June 2018
Bad news for England: only extra penalty shoot-outs plus a new points system will discourage collusion in future football World Cups, says Ignacio Palacios-Huerta
