Marianne Freiberger

Find out how random shapes shed light on one of the hardest problems in physics.

A story from geometry shows how developments in mathematics have fundamentally changed the way we think about the world around us.

We can't visualise it, but we can still think about it! And there are clever ways of glimpsing what it might look like.

A new language to talk about quantum physics is making calculations a whole lot easier.

The Abel Prize 2025 has been awarded to Masaki Kashiwara for contributions to algebraic analysis and representation theory. Find out what this means with our article!

This article explores this most beautiful of numbers. Find out its definition, why its value can only ever be approximated, what it has to do with waves, and why it contains the history of the Universe. 

One of the most important mathematicians of her time, Noether also proved a fundamental result in physics.

To avoid full school closures in the next pandemic, or even epidemic, epidemiologists need crucial information from schools, students, and parents.

There's a romantic vision of mathematicians only needing pen and paper for their work. Here's why this is far from the truth when it comes to mathematical modelling, used to solve problems in the real world.

Combining AI with human knowledge of physics may lead to powerful applications in a range of areas — from weather forecasting to engineering.

We explore the maths that helps explain this well-known phenomenon, which says that any two people around the world are likely to be connected through a surprisingly short chain of acquaintance links.

When a new infectious disease enters a population everything depends on who catches it — superspreaders or people with few contacts who don't pass it on.  We investigate the stochastic nature of the early stages of an outbreak.