Plus Magazine

Plus opens a door onto the world of maths, for anyone who is curious about the world and the maths that is changing our lives!

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As the climate emergency causes more extreme weather, research into weather predictions are ever more important.

The 2025 hurricane season provides a great case study into how the geography and maths intersect to form those predictions.
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If you want to know more about the Abel prize but you’d rather listen than read, try our podcast with the 2025 Prize winner, Masaki Kashiwara. (Photo by Peter Bagde)

https://t.co/e2v8QWVM8h

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Overwhelmed by the range of maths covered by the Abel prize? Start with Karen Uhlenbeck, the first (and currently only) woman to have won the prize and whose work has been described as so pioneering “it might never have been done otherwise”
https://t.co/mqbmvJmJt7

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To end this year’s #AbelWeek, let’s look back at the history of the Abel Prize and its former prizewinners. Find out more about everything from topology, computers, chaos, probability, and much more.
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#AbelWeek ends with the Holmboe Prize for schoolteachers, recognising the need for early maths education if we want more great mathematicians - something we fully support! We have resources for students & teachers on Plus and our sister site @nrichmaths. https://t.co/C1gYSDhOOw

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“[I] got lucky and have been travelling first class in mathematics ever since." A lovely (and humble!) reflection from this year’s winner of one of the biggest mathematics prizes, Gerd Faltings. #AbelWeek

(Photo Eirik Furu Baardsen/DNVA)

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Today Gerd Faltings will open this year’s Abel Prize Lectures. Faltings was awarded the prize for his work in arithmetic geometry, especially on the Mordell conjecture. We’ve broken down some of the theories underpinning his research here: https://t.co/JCvvKyZleE #AbelWeek

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Image of Gerd Faltings courtesy Eirik Furu Baardsen / DNVA

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If you’re in the UK like us and it’s feeling a bit too hot to read, try our podcast with the Prize Committee chair, Helge Holden, about the history and purpose of the prize. https://t.co/cvpENWlJPD

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If you’re in the UK like us and it’s feeling a bit too hot to read, try our podcast with the Prize Committee chair, Helge Holden, about the history and purpose of the prize. https://t.co/cvpENWlJPD

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Want a suggestion for where to start with our podcast #MathsOnTheMove? Try our episode on how researchers are using board games to explain mathematical modelling!

https://t.co/n3D8j7sn6h

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Need some distractions this weekend and want more maths?
"Always!", we hear you cry.

Try our podcast, #MathsOnTheMove - we have a huge backlog with episodes on everything from art to AI.

Available wherever you get your podcasts. https://t.co/aEpSZmNmEq

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In 2016/2017 infections acquired in hospitals in England accounted for 28,500 patient deaths and cost the NHS £2.7 billion. So how can we best understand and help avoid them? We spoke to Jessica Brigden about her work on models of transmission.

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You can watch that happen in this video from E.J. Stewart, R. Madden, G. Paul and F. Taddei.

If the minute article was too brief for you, you can learn more of the maths behind this and how it can be expressed in graph format in this article: https://t.co/L7XtCBh0P3

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What does it mean if something is growing exponentially and what does it have to do with this tree?

Find out more in this #MathsMinuteMonday

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Exponential growth means that something is growing at a rate proportional to its size. E.g. you have a bacteria that splits into two and an hour later each of those bacteria also splits into two… After the nth hour, there will be 2n organisms, that is 2 raised to the exponent n.

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Today is International #WomenInMathematics day, set up in honour of Maryam Mirzakhani, the first female Fields Medallist. To celebrate, we've collected together articles celebrating the incredible women in maths we have worked with over the last year.

https://t.co/48a3khLnpY

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We're super proud to host an extract of Richard Elwes' brilliant new book "Huge numbers". The article explores a fascinating Mayan #calendar with insights into the underlying notion of time and the #Maya way of writing numbers https://t.co/H7IsKj9PD1 #maths #math #numbers

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Here's a free extract, kindly hosted by @plusmathsorg, about the staggeringly long timescales the classical Maya contemplated in the course of their religion. 2/2

https://t.co/jH6nwsoFKC

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@PardoeMary Ah yes, sorry!

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Marcus will be talking about this topic at @NewtonInstitute on Saturday March 18, 2026, as part of the @Cambridge_Fest. Tickets are sold out but the talk will be live streamed https://t.co/JXy0BOtFsH

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Are you interested in the connections between #maths and #art? Then you'll probably like @MarcusduSautoy's
new book "Blueprints". Here's an excerpt: https://t.co/MUgn1K623x