Articles written by interns working with Tom at Tom Rocks Maths HQ in Oxford.
Justin Leung – Mathsquake: the Maths of Earthquakes
Ruby Nixson – The Normal Distribution and the Central Limit Theorem
Megan Bell: The Prosecutor’s Fallacy
Megan Bell: Bayes’ Theorem and Disease Testing
Megan Bell: Ghosts, Spam Emails and Bayes’ Theorem
Jakub Michalski – The Problem with Monty Hall
Jakub Michalski – Mathematical Modelling: Earthquakes, Coin Flips and Birthdays
Jakub Michalski: Bertrand Paradox
Georgie Bumpus: Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Georgie Bumpus: RSA Cryptography
Georgie Bumpus: Substitution Ciphers
Lynn Gui: Why e deserves the name ‘natural base’
Lynn Gui: e and the Sheldon Mitosis
Alex Homer: Monty Hall Origins
Zhaorui Xu – The Adventurer’s Guide to Mathematopia: Part 3
Alex Homer: Monty Hall Extended
Zhaorui Xu – The Adventurer’s Guide to Mathematopia: Part 2
Alex Homer: Monty Hall Revisited
Zhaorui Xu – The Adventurer’s Guide to Mathematopia: Part 1
Zhaorui Xu: Mathematopia – The Adventure Map of Mathematics
Zhaorui Xu: Sheltering Pigeons (and other thoughts on infinity)
Aditya Ghosh: Fermat’s Little Theorem
Aditya Ghosh: When do equations have solutions? (An introduction to Group Theory)
Aditya Ghosh: The Importance of being Symmetric
Aditya Ghosh: Modular Arithmetic and calculating expenses
Nanfan Yi: Infinite Wandering and Wondering
Nanfan Yi: Infinity – Go Wild or Go Home?
Nanfan Yi: Different Sizes of Infinities?!
Nanfan Yi: Infinity at First Glance (Perhaps a Stare)
Aarya Saraf: The Maths Behind Sex
Martha Bozic: What’s your type? The Maths behind the ‘Qwerty’ Keyboard
Joe Double: from aliens to bees via tattoos
Kai Laddiman: What are the chances that two England teammates share a Birthday?
Francesca Lovell-Read: Not so smooth criminals – how to use maths to catch a serial killer
Mariya Delyakova: Goldbach’s Conjecture – easy but hard
Kai Laddiman: Complex Numbers – they don’t have to be complex!
Joe Double: Maths proves that maths isn’t boring
Kai Laddiman: Spring into action and get ahead of the competition
Joe Double: Alien maths – we’re counting on it
Kai Laddiman: This robot is a ‘Cheetah’
