Maths
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Maths
Knot just a piece of string
Have you ever struggled to untie a particularly tight knot, battled with the jumbled mess of cables hidden behind your PC, or wondered why your shoelaces won't stay tied? If so, you're in good company, as mathematicians have wrestled with knots for over 200 years.
What’s the biggest number?
To our ancestors, a million was as big as numbers needed to get. There was no need to invoke the billons of finance or the terabytes of computing.
A colourful problem
How many colours do you need to fill in a map? The answer is more complicated than you'd think...
Divine inspiration
A self-taught genius from India and one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century. He believed mathematical ideas were visions from God, giving him a unique style of maths that helped solve problems Western mathematicians couldn’t.
