Algorithms

1 December 2021

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

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”

The mathematician’s guide to dating and finding the perfect partner

28 April 2020

Maths is in everything from your credit card PIN to how many friends you have. Compute how to figure out apps and speed dating with TV presenter and mathematician Bobby Seagull.

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

Mathematicians who revealed the power of random walks win Abel prize

18 March 2020

The 2020 Abel prize was awarded to mathematicians Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis for their use of probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics

Maths is all around us: how numbers control our everyday lives

12 December 2019

Maths is in everything from your credit card PIN to how many friends you have. Compute how with TV presenter and maths whizz Bobby Seagull

AI is helping tackle one of the biggest unsolved problems in maths

9 December 2019

Machine-learning algorithms are being used to tackle the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, one of the fiendishly difficult Millennium Prize Problems

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