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You might have heard of the golden ratio, but do you know the silver ratio? And other metallic ratios? Find out more here plus.maths.org/content/silv... #maths #mathematics
Metallic numbers: Beyond the golden ratio
You've heard of the golden ratio but have you heard of the silver ratio? And all its other cousins called the metallic numbers? Read this article to meet the family!
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November 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
You might have heard of the golden ratio, but do you know the silver ratio? And other metallic ratios? Find out more here plus.maths.org/content/silv... #maths #mathematics
Do you communicate, or have a stake in communicating, complex #maths and data science? Then you might be interested in our conference on Jan 29, 2026 at @NewtonInstitute, organised with @NewtonGateway. Registration is now open! gateway.newton.ac.uk/event/tgm156/
Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event - Newton Gateway to Mathematics
This one-day workshop, organised on behalf of the Mathsci-comm Network, will explore how the communication of research in mathematics and data science to...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Do you communicate, or have a stake in communicating, complex #maths and data science? Then you might be interested in our conference on Jan 29, 2026 at @NewtonInstitute, organised with @NewtonGateway. Registration is now open! gateway.newton.ac.uk/event/tgm156/
Carola is a colleague who does amazing work on the #maths of information. We love these videos courtesy of @joinExpeditions and and The Leverhulme Trust where she talks about her work plus.maths.org/content/meet...
November 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Carola is a colleague who does amazing work on the #maths of information. We love these videos courtesy of @joinExpeditions and and The Leverhulme Trust where she talks about her work plus.maths.org/content/meet...
What do you get when a physicist writes a book with a theatre and film person? Something we all can understand! Even if it is about #quantum #physics. Find out more in the latest episode of our #podcast plus.maths.org/content/livi...
Living Proof: Céline Broeckaert and Frank Verstraete
In this episode of Living Proof we talk to a playwright and a physicist about a book they have written together on the marvellous but tricky theory of quantum mechanics!
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November 12, 2025 at 10:11 AM
What do you get when a physicist writes a book with a theatre and film person? Something we all can understand! Even if it is about #quantum #physics. Find out more in the latest episode of our #podcast plus.maths.org/content/livi...
How do you know whether a mathematical model of a real-world process is accurate? How do you explain it to others? One way is to imagine you're living inside it! Join us for an adventure in model land in the latest episode of our #podcast plus.maths.org/content/adve... #maths #math
Adventures in Model Land
Would you like to play a game? Have an adventure? Join us on an adventure in Model Land!
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November 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
How do you know whether a mathematical model of a real-world process is accurate? How do you explain it to others? One way is to imagine you're living inside it! Join us for an adventure in model land in the latest episode of our #podcast plus.maths.org/content/adve... #maths #math
Haha! There's a Wikipedia entry on "Abstract nonsense"! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstrac... #maths #math #physics
Abstract nonsense - Wikipedia
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November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Haha! There's a Wikipedia entry on "Abstract nonsense"! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstrac... #maths #math #physics
Very interesting to be at the Newton Institute for a workshop on #quantum simulation and #quantum #computing organised by the Newton Gateway gateway.newton.ac.uk/event/ofbw75/
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
The Isaac Newton Institute is a national and international visitor research institute. It runs research programmes on selected themes in mathematics and the mathematical sciences with applications ove...
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November 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Very interesting to be at the Newton Institute for a workshop on #quantum simulation and #quantum #computing organised by the Newton Gateway gateway.newton.ac.uk/event/ofbw75/
What are #proof assistants? And how do they turn #maths into a collaborative game of many players? Find out in the latest episode of our #podcast featuring Kevin Buzzard plus.maths.org/content/livi... #math #mathematics
Kevin Buzzard and Big Proof
How can computers best help mathematicians? Not through AI, says Kevin Buzzard, but through proof assistants. This podcast explains what they are and why they turn maths into a collaborative game of m...
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October 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
What are #proof assistants? And how do they turn #maths into a collaborative game of many players? Find out in the latest episode of our #podcast featuring Kevin Buzzard plus.maths.org/content/livi... #math #mathematics
In the latest episode of our #podcast we talk to Moustapha Fall about AIMS Senegal, winning a Ramanujan Prize, and challenges for #maths in sub-Saharan #Africa plus.maths.org/content/livi... #mathematics
Living Proof: Moustapha Fall
In this episode of the Living Proof podcast we meet Moustapha Fall, President of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Senegal and winner of a prestigious Ramanujan Prize for Young...
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October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
In the latest episode of our #podcast we talk to Moustapha Fall about AIMS Senegal, winning a Ramanujan Prize, and challenges for #maths in sub-Saharan #Africa plus.maths.org/content/livi... #mathematics
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A reminder that if you are a primary or secondary school in Southwark, my in-school talks are always free - including short CPD sessions. Details of talks here: robeastaway.com/talks-and-ra...
Rob Eastaway - Talks
Talks
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October 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
A reminder that if you are a primary or secondary school in Southwark, my in-school talks are always free - including short CPD sessions. Details of talks here: robeastaway.com/talks-and-ra...
In our latest #podcast we talk to Codina Cotar about a #maths #art competition she ran connecting to a @NewtonInstitute research programme. The entries were amazing! Find out more in our chat with Codina plus.maths.org/content/livi...
Living proof: Codina Cotar and some amazing mathematical art
In this episode of Maths on the Move Codina Cotar discusses some of the jaw-dropping entries of a recent maths-art competition.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
In our latest #podcast we talk to Codina Cotar about a #maths #art competition she ran connecting to a @NewtonInstitute research programme. The entries were amazing! Find out more in our chat with Codina plus.maths.org/content/livi...
It's #AdaLovelaceDay! We celebrate by revisiting some of our content produced with women mathematicians over the last year! From #ArtificialIntelligence to group theory, we hope you enjoy our articles and podcasts plus.maths.org/content/happ... #maths #math #mathematics
Happy Ada Lovelace Day 2025!
We celebrate by revisiting some of the articles and podcasts we produced with women mathematicians over the last year.
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October 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
It's #AdaLovelaceDay! We celebrate by revisiting some of our content produced with women mathematicians over the last year! From #ArtificialIntelligence to group theory, we hope you enjoy our articles and podcasts plus.maths.org/content/happ... #maths #math #mathematics
The 2025 #NobelPrize in #physics went to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis for "the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit" www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded jointly to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an...
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October 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The 2025 #NobelPrize in #physics went to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis for "the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit" www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
Topological data analysis which uses pure #maths techniques to analyse (big) #data is one of our favourite topics at the moment. In the latest episode of our #podcast Mike Hill explores it further, including applications in social justice plus.maths.org/content/topo...
Topological data analysis with Michael Hill
Find out how topology, traditionally part of pure maths, can help us understand big data, with applications in areas such as cancer research and social justice.
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October 8, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Topological data analysis which uses pure #maths techniques to analyse (big) #data is one of our favourite topics at the moment. In the latest episode of our #podcast Mike Hill explores it further, including applications in social justice plus.maths.org/content/topo...
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Day 2 of Black Heroes of Mathematics 2025 is well underway.
The second talk by Flavia K. Santos titled 'Scoping Maths Anxiety in Our Community - Updated' has just started.
You can join us right now, just register for the Zoom link ➡️ www.lms.ac.uk/events/black...
The second talk by Flavia K. Santos titled 'Scoping Maths Anxiety in Our Community - Updated' has just started.
You can join us right now, just register for the Zoom link ➡️ www.lms.ac.uk/events/black...
October 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Day 2 of Black Heroes of Mathematics 2025 is well underway.
The second talk by Flavia K. Santos titled 'Scoping Maths Anxiety in Our Community - Updated' has just started.
You can join us right now, just register for the Zoom link ➡️ www.lms.ac.uk/events/black...
The second talk by Flavia K. Santos titled 'Scoping Maths Anxiety in Our Community - Updated' has just started.
You can join us right now, just register for the Zoom link ➡️ www.lms.ac.uk/events/black...
It's 10 years since ripples in spacetime called gravitational waves were first detected! The announcement was a very exciting event and we look back in awe plus.maths.org/content/spac... #physics #maths
Spacetime does ripple
Physicists have finally detected the gravitational waves they have been chasing for nearly 100 years.
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October 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
It's 10 years since ripples in spacetime called gravitational waves were first detected! The announcement was a very exciting event and we look back in awe plus.maths.org/content/spac... #physics #maths
We start the new season of our #podcast with one of our favourite physicists! David Tong talks about 100 years of #quantum mechanics, the theory it's grown into, quantum field theory, and strange connections in #physics plus.maths.org/content/davi... #maths #physics
David Tong and 100 years of quantum mechanics
Join us in a wavy dance from the very small to the very large with theoretical physicist David Tong!
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October 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Last week we had a wonderful time at #HLF25 where young researchers meet winners of the most important prizes in #maths and #computerscience. You can get a glimpse of what it was like in the #vlog we produced on behalf of @hlforum.bsky.social plus.maths.org/content/plus...
Plus at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2025
Watch the vlogs we produced at this year's HLF, an amazing event that connects young researchers with winners of prestigious prizes in maths and computer science!
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September 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Last week we had a wonderful time at #HLF25 where young researchers meet winners of the most important prizes in #maths and #computerscience. You can get a glimpse of what it was like in the #vlog we produced on behalf of @hlforum.bsky.social plus.maths.org/content/plus...
Human mathematicians make errors. Proof assistants are here to help. And while they're at it they turn #maths into a highly collaborative experience. Find out more with our articles plus.maths.org/content/samp... #mathematics #proof
Proof assistants
An exciting new development in mathematics is the invention of proof assistants. Proof assistants ensure that the mathematics that is produced is grounded in the axioms that should underpin them. Whil...
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September 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Human mathematicians make errors. Proof assistants are here to help. And while they're at it they turn #maths into a highly collaborative experience. Find out more with our articles plus.maths.org/content/samp... #mathematics #proof
Would you like to hear the inventor of the #internet, Vint Cerf, sing #karaoke? Then check out the latest #vlog from @hlforum.bsky.social #HLF25 youtu.be/sZz-NS4UeXE?...
September 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Would you like to hear the inventor of the #internet, Vint Cerf, sing #karaoke? Then check out the latest #vlog from @hlforum.bsky.social #HLF25 youtu.be/sZz-NS4UeXE?...
We're having a great time at @hlforum.bsky.social as always! Our first vlog is out now, featuring young researchers from around the world, mathematical art, and two lovely science journalist friends youtu.be/c49WU053ZSg?... #HLF2025
VLOG@HLF25 PART ONE
YouTube video by Heidelberg Laureate Forum
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September 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
We're having a great time at @hlforum.bsky.social as always! Our first vlog is out now, featuring young researchers from around the world, mathematical art, and two lovely science journalist friends youtu.be/c49WU053ZSg?... #HLF2025
We're back in Heidelberg for the 12th @hlforum.bsky.social where young researchers get to meet laureates of the most prestigious #maths and #compsci prizes. We'll be filming a vlog throughout the week, watch this space to see the episodes as they go live
September 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
We're back in Heidelberg for the 12th @hlforum.bsky.social where young researchers get to meet laureates of the most prestigious #maths and #compsci prizes. We'll be filming a vlog throughout the week, watch this space to see the episodes as they go live
Today we're revisiting the foundations of #maths! Gödel's results say there isn't one set of axioms on which all of maths should rest-different axioms allow you to prove different things. But is there a set of axioms that's more natural than all others? plus.maths.org/content/sear...
August 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Today we're revisiting the foundations of #maths! Gödel's results say there isn't one set of axioms on which all of maths should rest-different axioms allow you to prove different things. But is there a set of axioms that's more natural than all others? plus.maths.org/content/sear...
Theoretical #physicist Gary Gibbons has been awarded a prestigious ICTP Dirac Medal for his part in "turning black holes into windows onto the deepest laws of nature" ictp.it/news/2025/8/...
2025 ICTP Dirac Medal Goes to Gravity Explorers | ICTP
They were among the first to use black holes as a testing ground for innovative theories on general relativity, quantum gravity and string theory. Three different approaches, one common goal: to under...
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August 8, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Theoretical #physicist Gary Gibbons has been awarded a prestigious ICTP Dirac Medal for his part in "turning black holes into windows onto the deepest laws of nature" ictp.it/news/2025/8/...
Are you someone who communicates complex #mathematics to non-expert audiences? Then check out the Mathsci-comm network, which we've set up with support from the Newton Gateway and the Newton Institute in Cambridge mathsci-comm.maths.org
Mathsci-comm Network
The Mathsci-comm network brings together people who communicate, or have a stake in communicating, complex mathematics and data science to a variety of non-expert audiences.
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July 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Are you someone who communicates complex #mathematics to non-expert audiences? Then check out the Mathsci-comm network, which we've set up with support from the Newton Gateway and the Newton Institute in Cambridge mathsci-comm.maths.org