Here’s the fourth match in Round 1 of The Big Internet Math-Off. Today, we’re pitting Edmund Harriss against Colin Wright. Take a look at both pitches, vote for the bit of maths that made you do the loudest “Aha!”, and if you know any more cool facts about either of the topics presented here, please…

Here’s the third match in Round 1 of The Big Internet Math-Off. Today, we’re pitting Peter Rowlett against Alison Kiddle. Take a look at both pitches, vote for the bit of maths that made you do the loudest “Aha!”, and if you know any more cool facts about either of the topics presented here, please…

Here’s the second match in Round 1 of The Big Internet Math-Off. Today, we’re pitting Samuel Hansen against Paul Taylor. Take a look at both pitches, vote for the bit of maths that made you do the loudest “Aha!”, and if you know any more cool facts about either of the topics presented here, please…

Welcome to The Big Internet Math-Off! Over the next four weeks, 16 intrepid mathematicians are going to be sharing some of their favourite bits of maths in a series of head-to-head matches that will leave all of us numerically nourished and all but one of them wishing they’d spent more time trawling the arXiv. The…

This Summer, I’m trying something new: I’ve enlisted a few of my favourite mathematicians to take part in a tournament we’re calling The Summer’s full of instant knock-out tournaments to identify the people at the apex of all sorts of avenues of achievement. I thought, I’ve got a load of fun maths friends, who always…