Category: Mathematics Today

Wed 10 Apr 2019Mathematics Today

Congratulations to Professor Alan Champneys CMath FIMA, who is awarded the 2018 Catherine Richards Prize for his brilliant article, Westward […]

Fri 29 Mar 2019Mathematics Today

In his latest piece from the West Country, Alan Champneys recounts a personal journey that led him to publish, earlier […]

Tue 12 Feb 2019Mathematics Today

I recently stumbled across fertility stopping rules; fertility stopping or son-targeting means that a couple cease having children when (usually) […]

Tue 12 Feb 2019Mathematics Today

How pleasing to read some poetry in December’s issue! Mathematicians are famed for their all-round talents and many excel at […]

Tue 12 Feb 2019Mathematics Today

Inspired by the homage to farm machinery made famous by the West Country band the Wurzels, Alan Champneys considers the […]

Tue 12 Feb 2019Mathematics Today

The 1st IMA Conference on Knowledge Exchange was held on 3-4 December 2018 at Aston Conference Centre. The meeting, which […]

Tue 12 Feb 2019Mathematics Today

I have been a trainee Maths Teacher for one half-term. Before that, I was a lawyer, spending the last 19 […]

Wed 12 Dec 2018Mathematics Today

New Scientist Live is an award-winning, mind-blowing fes­tival of ideas and discoveries for everyone curious about science and why it […]

Wed 12 Dec 2018Mathematics Today

After the Spring 2018 conference in Durham having been hit by the notorious Beast from the East, it was reassuring […]

Wed 12 Dec 2018Mathematics Today

The HIV-AIDS epidemic is without doubt one of the biggest health disasters of recent times, responsible for over 35 million […]