Category: Mathematics Today

Thu 1 Dec 2016Mathematics Today

A group of friends organizes their tennis games by submitting each their availability over the weekdays. They want to obtain […]

Thu 1 Dec 2016Mathematics Today

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to  Duncan Haldane, Michael Kosterlitz and David Thouless, three British theoretical physicists […]

Sat 1 Oct 2016Mathematics Today

1 Introduction Network models are used in transport studies to explore the effects of individual travellers’ route choice. These model […]

Sat 1 Oct 2016Mathematics Today

There are one million kilometres of railways in the world servicing over three trillion () passenger-kilometres per year.  From urban […]

Sat 1 Oct 2016Mathematics Today

1 Introduction Road accidents are, fortunately, rare events. They occur randomly but on a systematic background in space and time: […]

Sat 1 Oct 2016Mathematics Today

Maria Bruna is the first mathematician to win a prestigious L’Oréal-UNESCO UK and Ireland for Women in Science Fellowship. The […]

Sat 1 Oct 2016Mathematics Today

Transportation is often described as an umbrella discipline because transport professionals come from many and varied backgrounds. Within academia transport […]

Mon 1 Aug 2016Mathematics Today

It seems such a simple thing. Take a strip of paper, bend it around, and join the ends. You end […]

Mon 1 Aug 2016Mathematics Today

The David Crighton Lecture 2016, was delivered by Frank Kelly on Thursday 12 May 2016 at the Royal Society. The […]

Mon 1 Aug 2016Mathematics Today

This year’s Shaw Prize in Mathematics was awarded to Professor Nigel Hitchin FRS (Savilian Professor of Geometry, University of Oxford) […]