Don’t Switch! Why Mathematicians’ Answer to the Monty Hall Problem is Wrong
Mathematics Today
The Monty Hall problem is one of those rare curiosities – a mathematical problem that has made the front pages […]
Domineering: Comments on a Game of No Chance
Mathematics Today
The game of crosscram was created by Goran Andersson and discussed in an article [1] by Martin Gardner; the game […]
Editorial, August 2015
Mathematics Today
Remarkable! There I was, reading about shoelaces in Professor Ian Stewart’s brilliant book The Magical Maze [1], when a simple […]
How to Model Honeybee Colonies
Mathematics Today
Mathematics is a way of travelling logically from to , where is a set of precisely stated rules or axioms […]
IMA Public Lecture: Hawking and Green
Mathematics Today
Every year the UK’s pure mathematicians and applied mathematicians hold major conferences, the British Mathematical Colloquium (BMC) and the British […]
David Broomhead (1950–2014)
Mathematics Today
Yes, dear Reader, this is an editorial, wrote David Broomhead in August 2002, and so began the tradition of editorials […]
Using Tropical Maths to Model Ribosome Dynamics
Mathematics Today
1. The mathematics of scheduling If two activities must be performed consecutively then the time required to complete both is […]
Improving Access for State-School Students
Mathematics Today
In a Guardian article [1] in November 2014, Paul Mason described how students from private schools have an advantage over […]
Editorial, April 2015
Mathematics Today
There was a smart chap called Einstein, Whose theories curved way out of line, He claimed light is bent, No […]
An Interview with Alexandra Randolph
Mathematics Today
Alexandra Randolph née Neville CMath MIMA is a teacher at St Paul’s Girls’ School in London. Her PhD was on […]