Marianne Freiberger

An impossible equation, two tragic heroes and the mathematical study of symmetry.

If you like to have your mind blown cosmology is a great field to go into. But is it science?

Could the world be simpler than our senses suggest?

Help to build the world's largest distributed fractal!

What gives an equation the right to call itself a law?

What makes a number a constant of nature?

Why cosmologists worry about isolated brains that randomly fluctuate into existence.

Why game theory is a serious business.

George Ellis explains why the study of the cosmos poses some very deep questions.

The winner of the 2014 Chern medal tells us about beauty in maths, the twists and turns of mathematical history, and his work for the maths community.

Manjul Bhargava is being honoured as a number theorist of "extraordinary creativity," with "a taste for simple problems of timeless beauty."