Category: Publications

Thu 12 Dec 2019Mathematics Today

We start this article with a puzzle: What relates the following? Bisque. Old lace. Burly wood. Chartreuse. Papaya whip. These […]

Thu 12 Dec 2019Mathematics Today

We are sorry to report that Edward Stansfield passed away after a short illness in early November. A tribute will […]

Thu 12 Dec 2019Mathematics Today

The final weekend of October saw the IMA’s Early Career Mathematicians (ECM) annual conference. It targets mathematicians at early stages […]

Sat 12 Oct 2019Mathematics Today

Applications of Mathematics in Physics and Astronomy have a long history, reaching back to ancient civilisations in Egypt and Greece. […]

Sat 12 Oct 2019Mathematics Today

When developing mathematical models that describe bacterial infections in a host, being able to incorporate the mechanisms by which bacteria […]

Sat 12 Oct 2019Mathematics Today

DNA recombination The classical dogma in biology says that DNA stores information, which is transcribed into RNA and then translated […]

Sat 12 Oct 2019Mathematics Today

Elimination of infectious diseases The year 2019 marks a number of important anniversaries: 75 years since D-Day, 50 years since […]

Sat 12 Oct 2019Mathematics Today

Professor Twarock (University of York) has led a sizeable team of researchers since 2007, with funding from a Leverhulme Trust […]

Sat 12 Oct 2019Mathematics Today

Photographs of early computer laboratories, with their chunky consoles and steel cabinets, always feature smart young women seated at terminals or […]

Tue 10 Sep 2019Mathematics Today

The Poisson match is a mathematical model of a sport in which two teams convert possession into points, e.g. soccer, […]