World-renowned mathematician Sir Roger Penrose, Oxford University, describes how crystalline symmetries are necessarily 2-fold, 3-fold, 4-fold, or 6-fold.
How has mathematics emerged over recent decades as the engine behind 21st century science? Alain Goriely looks at this question and more.
The entire history of mathematics in one hour, as illustrated by around 300 postage stamps featuring mathematics and mathematicians from across the world. From Euclid to Euler, from Pythagoras to [...]
Big Data promises to change all sectors of our economy, and deeply affect our society. But beyond the current hype, what are Big Data’s salient qualities, and do they warrant the high [...]
For the large part Mike Clayville may have been preaching to the already converted with Cloud Computing but for the curious and sections of the delegation that were less well informed about the [...]
