Math

I have uploaded to the arXiv my paper “Sum-difference exponents for boundedly many slopes, and rational complexity“. This is the second spinoff of my previous project with Bogdan Georgiev, Javier Gómez–Serrano, and Adam Zsolt Wagner that I recently posted about. …

Anne Skeldon visited the University of Durham on Monday this week (17 November) where she was invited to give a talk in the Applied Mathematics Seminar series. The title of her talk was “Mathematical modelling of the sleep-wake cycle: light, …

Generate New Equation 1 Understanding the Process Let’s factor this quadratic equation by grouping: 6x² + 13x + 6 To factor by grouping, we need to: Rewrite the middle term (bx) as a sum of two terms Create a four-term …

Huge congratulations to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis on the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit.” Their superconducting Josephson-circuit experiments made quantum …

Students in pyjamas, competing from home. Teachers asking, “How do we join next time?” Parents inquiring about subscriptions. Administration calling it “the future.” New Generation International Schools’ first-ever World Maths Day participation was full of surprises. In just one week, …

Towards a Theory of Bulk Orchestration It’s a key feature of living systems, perhaps even in some ways the key feature: that even right down to a molecular scale, things are orchestrated. Molecules (or at least large ones) don’t just …

Subscribe to our ▶️ YouTube channel 🔴 for the latest videos, updates, and tips. Here we will discuss how factors and multiples are related to each other in math. Factors of a Number: A number that divides a given number exactly is …

Hammering – pounding one thing with another thing – existed before the “invention” of the hammer. Math is the language we use (invented) to communicate information about quantities and ratios. Those relationships (more people needed to move a big rock …

I have uploaded to the arXiv my paper “New Nikodym set constructions over finite fields“. This is a spinoff of my previous project with Bogdan Georgiev, Javier Gómez–Serrano, and Adam Zsolt Wagner that I recently posted about. In that project …

Viktor Gerasimenko, a Professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv, Ukraine, is visiting Maths@Surrey for a month. His host for the visit is Cesare Tronci. Viktor and Cesare received a rebuild-Ukraine INI grant to visit the …