This year we mark the 60th anniversary of the Institute. Mathematics Today (MT), originally named the IMA Bulletin, has been a valued membership benefit since its first issue in March 1965.
To celebrate our anniversary, we are making a selection of interesting articles from our archive available online. These articles have been chosen by IMA members and MT readers, who introduce their favourite MT articles and explain why they are important to them.
These nine articles are on topics that continue to be relevant to today’s mathematicians. They span 1971 to 2016 and include a broad range of topics, such as numerical analysis, education, animal flight, Stokes phenomenon, Rubik’s cubes, the Enigma machine, Kalman filters and Bayesian statistics in the courtroom.
One of the articles, ‘Aerodynamic Aspects of Animal Flight’, is written by the IMA’s first president, Sir James Lighthill (1924–1998), and there are also articles on his work in this issue to celebrate 100 years since his birth.
To read the nine articles now available on the IMA website, visit the Mathematics Today and Bulletin Archive.
Peter Rowlett CMath FIMA
Sheffield Hallam University
Download the article, Celebrating 60 Years of Mathematics Today (pdf)
