Westward Ho! Musing on Mathematics and Mechanics
In the latest feature from Bristol and the West Country, Alan Champneys considers the life and work of the somewhat […]
Female Presidents for Three Maths Societies
The IMA celebrates that, for the first time, among the five Learned Mathematics Societies who comprise the Council for the […]
Cultural Challenges Facing the Mathematical Sciences
It is a great privilege to serve as president of the IMA. The Institute has a vital role to play […]
Editorial: Go, Forecasts, Faults and Puzzles
The ancient Chinese game of Go and is considered to be the oldest board game that has been played continuously […]
Exploring Steiner Chains with Möbius Transformations
In this article, we use circular gardens, Steiner’s porism and Möbius transformations to construct Steiner chains of tangential circles. We […]
Nobel Prize for Detecting Gravitational Waves
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three US researchers, Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip […]
Urban Maths: The Betz You Can Do?
About three years ago two wind turbines were erected not far from where I live. For two years they did […]
Fifth Most Influential Black Person in the UK
The Institute’s Vice President for Professional Affairs and Industry, Dr Nira Chamberlain CMath CSci FIMA, is fifth on the 2018 […]
Improving Mathematics Education
What can we learn from 25 years of mathematics support? We are deeply honoured and delighted to receive the IMA […]
Gravitational Waves: a New Window on the Universe
The first ever direct detection of gravitational waves from two black holes [1] was made by the LIGO and Virgo […]











