Feature Maths News
21 July 2026
China topped the medal table at the 67th International Mathematical Olympiad, the premier annual world maths championship for high school students, which this year was held in Shanghai. Seven students achieved a perfect score a 42 – and for the first time, an AI model was judged to have taken a clean sweep as well.
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With all the greats from Cantor to Gauss, from Plato all the way to Marcus du Sautoy, not to mention Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell, and even members of our own society, here are 100 of the greatest, most inspirational, or just plain funny mathematical quotes.
16 July 2026
As the ‘contest days’ at the 67th International Mathematical Olympiad in Shanghai come to a close, we take a look at the recently-released IMO 2026 maths problems. Can you solve them?
15 July 2026
Shanghai is hosting the 67th International Mathematical Olympiad, the largest edition yet of the world championship maths competition for high school students. Nearly 700 competitors from over 110 countries and territories will compete over the coming days.
30 June 2026
The FIFA World Cup 2026 is one of the biggest, most renowned tournaments in sporting history. But just how much does the tournament, and football more generally, rely on the mathematical world?
2 June 2026
On 26 May, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters awarded German mathematician Gerd Faltings, Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, the 2026 Abel Prize for his pioneering research into arithmetic geometry.
19 May 2026
Why is it that if there are 23 people in a room, it is more likely than not that two of share share a birthday? A classic problem where probability breaks intuition.
28 April 2026
The Collatz conjecture is one of the most infamous yet simple mathematical problems in the world. No one can seem to prove it, despite the attention of some of the world’s best mathematicians. So how does it work and why can’t we solve its mystery yet?
21 April 2026
We spend our whole lives moving around in three dimensions: up-down, left-right, and forward-backward. It’s so natural that we don’t even think about it. But in mathematics, there’s no rule saying you have to stop at three. In fact, mathematicians work with ‘n-dimensions’ all the time.
10 March 2026
The Two Guards Riddle is a simple yet fascinating logic puzzle. You are travelling along a road when you arrive at a fork in the road. You know that one path leads to vast riches and the other leads to certain doom, but you do not know which is which. One is guarded by a truth-teller and one by a liar. How do you know which route to take?
