MathsSport
Running the numbers
Is it fair to let an athlete with carbon fibre limbs compete in the Olympics? Sports scientists use statistics to find out.
The footballing mathematicians
Studying maths doesn’t stop you from playing world-class football. Harald Bohr was a Danish mathematician who won a silver medal at the 1908 summer Olympics. He also played for the Danish club Akademisk Boldklub alongside his Nobel Prize-winning brother, the physicist Niels Bohr.