1 April 2026
April has a lot to offer when it comes to popular science reading, promising to help us do everything from future-proof our brains courtesy of Hannah Critchlow, to get to grips with really big numbers, thanks to Richard Elwes
25 April 2018
Awarded every four years, the Fields medals honour the brightest young mathematical talent. We look back at some of the most intriguing past winners
17 August 2011
In popular literature written by pedlars of postmodern nonsense, Austrian logician Kurt Gödel is often said to have destroyed mathematical certainty with his incompleteness...
27 July 2011
The mysteries of infinity could lead us to a fantastic structure above and beyond mathematics as we know it
1 September 2010
Richard Elwes reports on Harvey Friedman's fascinating work on incompleteness in Boolean relation theory, but it is quite a stretch to extend his work...
10 August 2010
Some mathematical problems will remain hard no matter how cunning your computer program, a new proof has shown
26 November 2008
Richard Elwes writes, "But what is it exactly about the conjurer's knot that means it can be pulled apart just like that, but the shoelace cannot?"...
