How to Make the Perfect Pancake
Mathematics Today
We explore the cooking of pancakes using a combination of kitchen experiments and mathematical theory. The properties of a pancake […]
The 2015 ECM Autumn Conference at Bath
Mathematics Today
On Saturday 14 November, more than 80 mathematicians in the early stages of their career gathered together at the University […]
The Participation of Girls in Further Mathematics
Mathematics Today
Further Mathematics (FM) is a qualification designed to broaden and deepen a student’s mathematical knowledge, and can be taken to […]
Editorial, February 2016
Mathematics Today
Let me start by congratulating Professor Chris Linton on his recent appointment as IMA President and wishing him well during […]
Windows on Advanced Mathematics
Mathematics Today
If you are reading this editorial, the chances are that you take it as read that to think mathematically affords […]
Software Tools That Do More with Less
Mathematics Today
Over the past decade we have been engaged in creating and investigating innovative learning environments in differential equations (DEs) that […]
The Potential and Challenges for Mathematics Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age
Mathematics Today
IMA Presidential Address 2015 The underlying theme of my presidential address was to outline the evidence of the importance of […]
A Diagrammatic Construction of Indefinite Integrals: Confronting the Elusive +C
Mathematics TodayMultiple representations of mathematical concepts reveal different aspects of their properties. Constructing links between pictorial and algebraic representations allows for [...]
The Origins of General Relativity
Mathematics Today
One hundred years ago, Einstein completed his general theory of relativity. Here we reflect on his ten-year journey of discovery […]
A Century of General Relativity
Mathematics Today
1. The birth of the theory In 1900 physics was in a quandary. Well-tested Newtonian physics was incompatible with Maxwell’s […]