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 […]
IMA AGM Minutes 2015
Governance
A draft version of the minutes of the Fifty-First Annual General Meeting of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications held at the Royal Society, London, on 24 June 2015 is now available for information.
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 […]