Urban Maths: Picturing the Zeta Function
Travelling from the outskirts to the centre of town I’m bombarded with posters: in shop windows, on hoardings, on walls, […]
Cracking in Nuclear Graphite
Advanced gas cooled reactors (AGRs) have provided a major contribution to the security of the UK’s electricity supply for four […]
Mathematics for Glass Manufacture
Doireann O’Kiely was awarded the IMA Lighthill-Thwaites Prize at the British Applied Mathematics Colloquium (BAMC), held at the University of […]
Editorial, June 2017
Ursula Martin’s article in the last issue was particularly topical in celebrating the impact of mathematics upon society. Although I […]
Maths, Teamwork and Googlies
The 2016 IMA-LMS Christopher Zeeman Medal was awarded to Rob Eastaway for excellence in the promotion of mathematics to the […]
Mathematics Nomad Wins Abel Prize
Give me a museum and I’ll fill it. – Pablo Picasso Prolific mathematician Yves Meyer, could be described as the […]
Mathematics in War: Attack of Port Stanley Airfield
Written on the 35th anniversary of the Falklands war, in commemoration of all those who gave their lives. I have […]
Westward Ho! Musing on Mathematics and Mechanics
In the first of a regular feature from Bristol and the West Country, Alan Champneys considers a bizarre Gloucestershire bank […]
Editorial, April 2017
A vacancy has arisen for membership of the Mathematics Today Editorial Board, as Hannah Davies recently resigned due to other […]
Hidden Figures and the Impact of Mathematics
The 2016 film Hidden Figures tells the powerful story of a group of female African-American mathematicians who worked on the […]











