Category: Mathematics Today

Fri 11 Feb 2022Mathematics Today

I have written before on the subject of the invention of logarithms by Napier, and their development by Briggs into […]

Fri 11 Feb 2022Mathematics Today

The trouble with idle thoughts is that they don’t always stay idle. Sometimes, they can take on a life of […]

Fri 11 Feb 2022Mathematics Today

Paul Glendinning is the IMA President for 2022–2023. He is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Manchester, […]

Mon 13 Dec 2021Mathematics Today

Since the 1890s, storytelling through moving images has gripped audiences across the globe. In post-war Britain, desperate to feel the […]

Mon 13 Dec 2021Mathematics Today

It cannot have escaped the attention of IMA members that the use of mathematical models, and associated algorithms, has had […]

Mon 13 Dec 2021Mathematics Today

In July 2017 a one-day meeting was held in honour of the late Professor John Blake. Those fortunate enough to […]

Tue 12 Oct 2021Mathematics Today

October is Black History Month, a tradition that began in the US and was officially recognised there in 1976 as […]

Tue 12 Oct 2021Mathematics Today

As a child if someone had told me that later in life, I would be writing an editorial for the […]

Tue 12 Oct 2021Mathematics Today

June 2004, the 1st IMA Younger Mathematicians’ Conference, was a day that would change my life forever. The Younger Mathematicians’ […]

Fri 13 Aug 2021Mathematics Today

The 2020 IMA Gold Medal was awarded to Nick Higham. This article is based on the Gold Medallist Talk that […]