Rachel Thomas

We reflect on the late John Conway, the thoughts he shared with us over two interviews, and the experience of meeting him as a person and a mathematician.

An urgent call has gone out to the scientific modelling community to help fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Two Cambridge mathematicians are helping to lead the charge.

To celebrate the recent centenary of the first major test of Einstein's general theory of relativity, we look back over how our picture of gravity has changed.

How to unjam traffic.

What is a particle phenomenologist?

Find out how OKCupid's algorithm works.

The impact of GPS on our lives is celebrated with the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.

Sir Michael Atiyah dies aged 89.

Researchers have shown that the fates of our collective memories, whether of a song, a research paper, an invention or a sports star, are all described by the same mathematical equation.

A hundred years ago Ramanujan was elected FRS. Here is a look at the maths that gained him the title.

Revolutionary laser tools that have changed our lives have won the Nobel prize in physics.

Ali Nesin has been awarded the 2018 Leelavati Prize for creating a mathematical paradise for Turkish students and the world's mathematicians.