Articles written by interns working with Tom at Tom Rocks Maths HQ in Oxford.
Molly Roberts – A Mathematical Holiday (Part 1): Packing Your Bags
Molly Roberts – Numbers with Cool Names: Weird, Sexy and Untouchable
Molly Roberts – Numbers with Cool Names: Amicable, Sociable, Friendly
Molly Roberts – Numbers with Cool Names: Happy, Lucky and Perfect
Khanh Giang – Why don’t we have Quantum Computers already?
Khanh Giang – How do we build a Quantum Computer?
Khanh Giang – Why do we need Quantum Computers?
Aidan Strong – Why all music is out of tune
Aidan Strong – Why all World Maps are Wrong
Aidan Strong – Why the Cycloid is the best curve
Ifan Rogers – Traffic Shock Waves
Ioana Bouros: Mohr-Mascheroni Theorem
Ioana Bouros: Mendelian Genetics
Ioana Bouros: Small World Effect
Ioana Bouros: Frieze Patterns at the Ashmolean Museum
Ioana Bouros: Wallpaper Groups and Tiling Floors
Gavin Bala: The Ultimate Guide to Groups: Part IV
Semu Serunjogi – From Handshakes to Mountains via Bijections
Gavin Bala – The Ultimate Guide to Groups: Part III
Semu Serunjogi – Counting Mountain Ranges
Gavin Bala – The Ultimate Guide to Groups: Part II
Semu Serunjogi – Counting Socially Distanced Handshakes
Gavin Bala – The Ultimate Guide to Groups: Part I
Semu Serunjogi – Catalan Numbers: An Introduction to Recurrence Relations
Gavin Bala – The 9 Regular Polyhedra
The Finite Calculus: Part II Integration
Gavin Bala – The Finite Calculus Part I
Gavin Bala – How to Build a Settlement on Mercury with the Heat Equation
Gavin Bala – The Heat Equation and Wine Cellars
Lorenzo Piersante – How do computers simulate the real world?
Lorenzo Piersante – How do computers solve equations?
Lorenzo Piersante – How do Computers do Maths?
Chenying Liu – Drawing the Cube Root of 2 with Plato
Chenying Liu – Give Me Paper and I Shall Fold the Cube Root of 2
Chenying Liu – Creating the Cube Root of 2: From Apollo to Plato
Siddiq Islam – Is Visual Mathematics Artistic?
Siddiq Islam – Is Visual Art Mathematical?
Vlad Bercovici – Mathematically Proving Why You Should Avoid Las Vegas (Part 3 of 3)
Vlad Bercovici – Linear recurrence relations and how to solve them (Part 2 of 3)
Vlad Bercovici – Probability is everywhere. But what is it exactly? (Part 1 of 3)
Wilf Offord – Quantum Teleportation and Entanglement: How do they work?
Wilf Offord – 5 Types of Infinity
Wilf Offord – How Quantum Computers Work (and why you should care)
Becca Tanner – Fermi Problems Part 3: Where is everybody?
Becca Tanner – Fermi Problems Part 2: Don’t sweat the small stuff
Charlie Ahrendts – Stop 5: Planet of Continuity
Charlie Ahrendts – Stop 4: Realm of Chaos
Charlie Ahrendts – Stop 3: Multi-dimensional World
Charlie Ahrendts – Stop 2: Fluid Planet
Charlie Ahrendts – Stop 1: Positivity Planet
Charlie Ahrendts – Gödels Incompleteness Theorem Explainer
Charlie Ahrendts – Set Theory Explainer
Charlie Ahrendts – Axioms of the Real Numbers Explainer
Charlie Ahrendts – Journeying Across the Mathematical Universe
Alex Nikic – Testing for Divisibility of ANY Number
Becca Tanner – Fermi Problems Part 1: Envelopes at the Ready!
Sam Flower – Level 3: Doughnuts all the way down
Sam Flower – Level 2: Houston, we have a problem
Iain Duncan – How fast does Santa travel?
Iain Duncan – The Maths of Santa Claus
Sam Flower – Level 1: Space is a Doughnut
Sam Flower – Maths of the Pokédex
Amie Campbell – Comparing Disease Tests using ROC Curves and AUC Values
Amie Campbell – Sensitivity, Specificity and Confusion Matrices
Sian Langham – The Maths of Poker
Sian Langham – Catching Fraudsters with Maths
Sian Langham – Golf and Projectile Motion
Sian Langham – Binary Code and Storing Music on Computers
Lewis Baxter – A Problem with Rectangles Revisited
Justin Leung – Complex Numbers, Air Traffic Control and RADAR
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