Fifth Most Influential Black Person in the UK
The Institute’s Vice President for Professional Affairs and Industry, Dr Nira Chamberlain CMath CSci FIMA, is fifth on the 2018 […]
Improving Mathematics Education
What can we learn from 25 years of mathematics support? We are deeply honoured and delighted to receive the IMA […]
Gravitational Waves: a New Window on the Universe
The first ever direct detection of gravitational waves from two black holes [1] was made by the LIGO and Virgo […]
Designing Interplanetary Transfers
Leaving Earth and arriving at another planet or asteroid requires a spacecraft to implement a sequence of manoeuvres. These include […]
Maryam Mirzakhani and her work
Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the International Mathematical Union’s premier prize the Fields medal, died aged 40 on […]
Editorial, October 2017
When the Babylonians practiced their astronomy during and after the First Babylonian Dynasty (c. 1830 BC), they were the first […]
Mathematical Recipes for Never-repeating Quasicrystals
Dr Priya Subramanian is supported by the L’Oréal UK and Ireland Fellowship for Women in Science. The annual Fellowships programme […]
Wiles Wins the World’s Oldest Scientific Prize
Professor Sir Andrew Wiles of the University of Oxford is the 2017 recipient of the Copley Medal, the Royal Society’s […]
Urban Maths: Tipping Point
The motivating question Why is it always the full glasses that get knocked over? That question was posed after a […]
The Debate about Algorithms
Algorithms, in both the broad and narrow senses of the word, affect practically every aspect of our daily lives. Algorithms […]











