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The Cambridge professor thanked Dikran Tahta, who taught him at St Albans School in the 1950s, as he celebrated the role teachers can play in the lives of their pupils. “At St Albans [...]

Throughout the natural world – in corals, cactuses, sea-slugs and lettuce leaves – we see swooping, curving and crenelated forms. All these are biological manifestations of hyperbolic geometry an [...]

What happens when someone claims to have proved a famous conjecture? Well, it depends. When a paper is submitted, the journal editor will pass it off to a respected expert for examination. That [...]

7 December 2015: Mathematics is revolutionising cancer research and saving lives, leading international forensic bioinformatician from the United States, Professor Keith Baggerly, will [...]

Senator Simon Birmingham, Minister for Education and Training, spoke of Australian government support for bioinformatics in his opening message to the participants of AMSI BioInfoSummer 2015. [...]

“Why on earth would anyone choose mathematics as a field of discipline to study, or construct a career in the field?” Richard Brown, director of undergraduate studies in Johns Hopkins [...]

You may have seen today’s Google Doodle celebrating George Boole’s 200th birthday, or birthday No. 11001000! George Boole was an English mathematician, philosopher and logician who [...]