Peter Markowich is a mathematician who likes to take pictures. At first his two interests seemed completely separate to him, but then he realised that behind every picture there is a mathematical story to tell. Plus went to see him to find out more, and ended up with a pictorial introduction to partial differential equations.

Loquacious maths

Food evolution

Modelling Olympic success

Modelling terrorist activity

Will we

Solving two unrelated problems at once

Have you got as many friends as you think?

Well educated aliens

In the movies mathematicians are mostly mad. Since here at Plus we firmly believe in our sanity, we're puzzled as to why. So we charged Charlotte Mulcare with the unenviable task of sifting through five well-known maths movies and speculate towards an answer.

A generation of lost mathematicians