Relatively Prime  is a new maths podcast from Samuel Hansen.  I'm delighted that an early episode, The Toolbox , begins by discussing my...

Thanks to an ingenious mathematical invention we can now tell the time in the garden. (Added 22/9/12) It seems fairly accurate t...

I heard earlier this week that the solution to an outstanding mathematical problem, the proof of the abc conjecture, has been announced .  (...

There is a minor news item today  about a curious result in the UK National Lottery.  Five people who each chose the six correct numbers sha...

Saturday's Guardian newspaper feature about Julian Assange contained an amusing quote from a friend from his university days (Assange st...

I have been meaning to write something in response to two recent blog posts on history of mathematics and anecdote. Dennis Des Chene (aka ...

I have always been drawn towards pure, rather than applied, mathematics.  As a student I had no feel for mechanics: I could solve the ...