maths

Certainly intriguing: Apple TV+’s Prime Target reviewed

25 January 2025 9:00 am

Needless to say, there have been any number of thrillers that rely on what Alfred Hitchcock called a MacGuffin: something,…

Something doesn’t add up

16 April 2022 9:00 am

More exciting news arrives from Britain’s dimmest university, Durham, which is embarking on a programme to ‘decolonise’ mathematics. About time.…

Now isn’t the time to ‘decolonise’ the curriculum

7 April 2021 3:55 pm

Who will educate the educators, when the educators get things wrong? This week, one of Britain’s leading teaching unions passed a…

How to build a school

5 September 2015 9:00 am

Lessons from the first year of our specialist maths school

From Stephen Collins’s Some Comics

A choice of humorous books

22 November 2014 9:00 am

Nancy Mitford would not call them ‘toilet books’, that’s for certain. Loo books? Lavatory books? One or two people I…

Strength in numbers

16 November 2013 9:00 am

Numbers, as every mathematician knows, do odd things. But they’re never odder than in the human context. Ever since we…