Mathematicians used “magic functions” to prove that two highly symmetric lattices solve a myriad of problems in eight- and 24-dimensional space. The points could be an infinite collection of electrons ...

Ask any of your friends and you’ll get a lot of negative answers and hatred for maths. I bet at least one of them will tell you something like “I don’t know why I learnt Trigonometry at school, I’ve ...

Executive functions play an important role in early maths, says Rosemary O’Connor, from a University of Oxford team who have developed a programme to embed these crucial mental skills into fun maths ...