Articles by subject

Algebra

Issue No 10 January 2000

• The origins of proof IV: The philosophy of proof

Issue No 6 September 1998

• Complex multiplication
• Diophantine Equations

Issue No 5 May 1998

• Complex multiplication
• Three-digit numbers

Issue No 3 September 1997

• Rectangle triangle problem

Arithmetic

Issue No 5 May 1998

• Zero thinking

Issue No 3 September 1997

• Puzzle No 3 - birth dates

Art and Mathematics

Issue No 19 March 2002

• New designs from Africa

Axioms

Issue No 10 January 2000

• The Origins of Proof IV: The Philosophy of Proof

Issue No 9 May 1999

• The Origins of Proof III: Proof And Puzzles Through The Ages

Issue No 8 May 1999

• The Origins of Proof II: Kepler's Proofs

Issue No 7 January 1999

• The Origins of Proof

Biography

Issue No 12 Sep 2000

• Against the Odds: Emmy Amalie Noether

Issue No 9 September 1999

• Maths on the Brain
• Letters

Issue No 2 May 1997

• Agner Krarup Erlang (1878 - 1929)

Issue No 1 January 1997

• Daniel Bernoulli and the making of the fluid equation

Calculus

Issue No 9 September 1999

• Extracting Beauty from Chaos

Issue No 8 May 1999

• The Dynamic Sun

Careers

Issue No 19 March 2002

• John Henstridge and Jodie Thompson, consultant statisticians

Issue No 17 March 2001

• Jon Walthoe, Maths editor

Issue No 16 March 2001

• Christine Hogan, aerodynamicist

Issue No 15 March 2001

• Steve Traylen, systems administrator

Issue No 14 March 2001

• Kathy Byrne: Actuary

Issue No 13 January 2001

• Jenni Barker: Science Communicator

Issue No 12 September 2000

• Jim McElwaine: Avalanche Researcher

Issue No 11 May 2000

• Paul Clifford: Secondary School Maths Teacher

Issue No 10 January 2000

• Helen Thomson: Sales Forecasting

Issue No 9 September 1999

• David Spaughton and Anton Merlushkin

Issue No 8 May 1999

• Francesco Mezzadri and Nina Snaith PhD students, University of Bristol

Issue No 7 January 1999

• Andrew Wensley Computer Game Designer

Issue No 6 September 1998

• Geraldine Paxton Electronics Engineer
• David Ruddock undergraduate, Sheffield Hallam University

Issue No 5 May 1998

• Karen Reid Qualifications Manager
• Alexander Langley undergraduate, Sheffield Hallam University

Issue No 4 January 1998

• Scott Eason Actuary
• Andrew Snape student, City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College

Issue No 3 September 1997

• Helen Hewson Research Scientist, Meteorological Office
• Sarah Hudson undergraduate, University of Sussex

Issue No 2 May 1997

• Tim Pilkington Accountant
• Christine Vretta and Steve Smith undergraduates, Keele University

Issue No 1 January 1997

• Helen Mason Astrophysicist
• Mark Langley student, Hills Road Sixth Form College

Chaos and Fractals

Issue No 11 June 2000

• Chaos in Numberland: The secret life of continued fractions
• Fractal Expressionism

Issue No 9 September 1999

• Extracting Beauty from Chaos
• Computing the Mandelbrot Set
• Jackson's Fractals
• Doing the Twist

Codes

Issue No 19 March 2002

• News: Terrorists' code of honour

Issue No 13 January 2001

• News: Cipher Challenge Cracked

Issue No 12 September 2000

• Take a break

Issue No 10 January 2000

• Codes, trees and the prefix property

Issue No 9 September 1999

• Oops!

Issue No 7 January 1999

• Sarah's Cracking Algorithm

Issue No 3 September 1997

• Coding theory: the first 50 years
• Decoding a war time diary

Combinatorics

Issue No 8 May 1999

• A Knotty Sartorial Problem

Complex Numbers

Issue No 6 September 1998

• Complex multiplication

Issue No 9 September 1999

• Computing the Mandelbrot Set

Issue No 5 May 1998

• Complex multiplication
• Three-digit numbers

Computer Science

Issue No 5 May 1998

• What computers can't do

Decision Theory

Issue No 14 March 2001

• Maths aMaes

Issue No 8 May 1999

• Radio Controlled

Issue No 2 May 1997

• Call routing in telephone networks

Differential Equations

Issue No 8 May 1999

• The Dynamic Sun

Dynamic Programming

Issue No 3 September 1997

• Dynamic programming: an introduction

Exponential Function

Issue No 14 March 2001

• Radioactive Decay and Exponential Laws

Issue No 13 January 2001

• Light Attenuation and Exponential Laws

Fibonacci Numbers

Issue No 3 September 1997

• The life and numbers of Fibonacci

Financial Mathematics

Issue No 14 March 2001

• Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand

Issue No 12 September 2000

• The Beginnings of Actuarial Science

Issue No 11 May 2000

• Have we caught your interest?

Forces

Issue No 8 May 1999

• The Origins of Proof II: Kepler's Proofs
• Spiralling Stars

Fractions

Issue No 19 March 2002

• An infinite series of surprises

Issue No 12 September 2000

• In Perfect Harmony

Issue No 4 January 1998

• What did the Romans know?

Functions

Issue No 13 January 2001

• Light Attenuation and Exponential Laws

Issue No 8 May 1999

• The Dynamic Sun
• Radio Controlled

Game Theory

Issue No 19 March 2002

• Mystery Mix - Survival of the nicest?

Issue No 14 March 2001

• Adam Smith and the invisible hand

Issue No 2 May 1997

• What mathematicians get up to
• Kasparov defeated!

Geometric Distribution

Issue No 7 January 1999

• World Cup Medallions (Solution)

Issue No 2 May 1997

• Running before we can walk?

Geometry

Issue No 11 June 2000

• Analemmatic Sundials: How to build one and why they work

Issue No 10 January 2000

• In space, do all roads lead to home?
• The origins of proof IV: The philosophy of proof

Issue No 9 September 1999

• 12:00 PMT?

Issue No 8 May 1999

• The Art of Numbers
• The Gobbling Goat
• How Unilluminating!

Issue No 7 January 1999

• Geometer's Corner

Issue No 6 September 1998

• Review: Geometer's Sketchpad
• Plotting radar intercepts

Issue No 3 September 1997

• Mathematical mysteries: Kepler's conjecture

Issue No 2 May 1997

• Using Java to enhance the WWW

Graphs

Issue No 8 May 1999

• Radio Controlled

Issue No 2 May 1997

• Using Java to enhance the WWW

Gravity

Issue No 10 January 2000

• Planets, planets everywhere

Issue No 9 September 1999

• Foucault's Pendulum and the Eclipse

Issue No 8 May 1999

• The Origins of Proof II: Kepler's Proofs
• Spiralling Stars

Infinity

Issue No 5 May 1998

• What computers can't do

Irrational Numbers

Issue No 9 September 1999

• The Origins of Proof III: Proof And Puzzles Through The Ages

Issue No 3 September 1997

• Pushing back Pi

Knots

Issue No 8 May 1999

• A Knotty Sartorial Problem

Light

Issue No 13 January 2001

• Light Attenuation and Exponential Laws

Limits

Issue No 3 September 1997

• The life and numbers of Fibonacci

Logic

Issue No 9 September 1999

• The Origins of Proof III: Proof And Puzzles Through The Ages

Issue No 8 May 1999

• The Origins of Proof II: Kepler's Proofs
• The Great Weights Puzzle Solution

Issue No 7 January 1999

• The Great Weights Puzzle

Mathematical Modelling

Issue No 19 March 2002

• Maths in the dock
• Interview - Statistical consulting
• News: Formulaic football

Issue No 14 March 2001

• The Mathematics of Diseases

Issue No 13 January 2001

• Modelling, Step by Step
• News: Beat the Crush

Issue No 12 September 2000

• Fishy Business

Issue No 6 September 1998

• Quantum theory, Why God plays dice
• Relativity, Why God plays dice

Issue No 5 May 1998

• Quantum uncertainty
• Light's identity crisis

Issue No 4 January 1998

• Natural frequencies and music
• Designing loudspeakers

Issue No 2 May 1997

• Testing Bernoulli: a simple experiment

Issue No 1 January 1997

• Understanding turbulence

Mathematical Thinking

Issue No 19 March 2002

• Natural born mathematicians

Mechanics

Issue No 19 March 2002

• News: Folding under pressure

Issue No 13 January 2001

• News: Prawn Crackers

Issue No 10 January 2000

• Probing the pint
• Planets, planets everywhere
• Martian mayhem
• Overarch

Issue No 9 September 1999

• Doing the Twist
• Foucault's Pendulum and the Eclipse

Issue No 8 May 1999

• The Origins of Proof II: Kepler's Proofs
• Spiralling Stars

Networks

Issue No 8 May 1999

• Radio Controlled

Oscillations

Issue No 4 January 1998

• Natural frequencies and music

Polar Kinematics

Issue No 2 May 1997

• Puzzle No 2 - carnivorous beetles

Prime Numbers

Issue No 19 March 2002

• News: Of prime importance

Issue No 7 January 1999

• Perilous primes

Issue No 5 May 1998

• Mathematical mysteries: Goldbach revisited

Issue No 4 January 1998

• Mathematical mysteries: twin primes

Issue No 3 September 1997

• Primes update: success again!

Issue No 2 May 1997

• Mathematical mysteries: the Goldbach conjecture

Issue No 1 January 1997

• Discovering new primes

Probability

Issue No 10 January 2000

• Editorial: How To Lie With Statistics

Issue No 9 September 1999

• Looking Out For Number One
• Ye Banks And Bayes

Issue No 8 May 1999

• Monte Carlo Monopoly

Issue No 7 January 1999

• World Cup Medallions (Solution)

Issue No 6 September 1998

• World Cup medallions

Issue No 5 May 1998

• Yet more taxis!

Issue No 4 January 1998

• Image analysis - a modern application of mathematics
• What a coincidence!
• The coin tossing problem
• The taxi problem revisited
• Three doors

Issue No 3 September 1997

• Mathematics, marriage and finding somewhere to eat
• Optimal stopping

Issue No 2 May 1997

• The taxi problem

Proof

Issue No 10 January 2000

• The origins of proof IV: The philosophy of proof
• Book reviews

Issue No 9 September 1999

• The Origins of Proof III: Proof And Puzzles Through The Ages

Issue No 8 May 1999

• The Origins of Proof II: Kepler's Proofs

Issue No 7 January 1999

• The Origins of Proof
• Trisecting the Angle

Issue No 6 September 1998

• Monochromatic cows

Issue No 3 September 1997

• Mathematical mysteries: Kepler's conjecture

Regression

Issue No 2 May 1997

• Long range forecast

Relative Velocity

Issue No 2 May 1997

• Puzzle No 2 - carnivorous beetles

Resonance

Issue No 4 January 1998

• Natural frequencies and music
• Designing loudspeakers

Reviews

Issue No 5 May 1998

• Interactive Past Papers^TM Mathematics

Issue No 2 May 1997

• New Scientist on the web
• Women in the history of mathematics

Rigid Bodies

Issue No 10 January 2000

• Overarch

Issue No 7 January 1999

• Unspinning the Boomerang
• Galloping Gyroscopes
• Bang Up A Boomerang

Rotational Motion

Issue No 7 January 1999

• Unspinning the Boomerang
• Galloping Gyroscopes
• Bang Up A Boomerang

Sampling

Issue No 10 January 2000

• Careers Interview: Sales Forecasting

Issue No 2 May 1997

• Are the polls right?

Sequences and Series

Issue No 19 March 2002

• An infinite series of surprises

Issue No 19 March 2002

• In Perfect Harmony

Issue No 10 January 2000

• Self-similar syncopations
• Codes, trees and the prefix property

Issue No 9 September 1999

• A Postcard From Italy
• Letters

Issue No 2 May 1997

• More hailstones...

Issue No 1 January 1997

• Mathematical mysteries: Hailstone sequences

Simple Harmonic Motion

Issue No 4 January 1998

• Natural frequencies and music

Simulation

Issue No 19 March 2002

• News: Reducing radiotherapy roulette

Issue No 13 January 2001

• News: Beat the Crush

Issue No 8 May 1999

• Monte Carlo Monopoly

Springs

Issue No 4 January 1998

• Natural frequencies and music

Surfaces

Issue No 8 May 1999

• The Art Of Numbers

Trigonometry

Issue No 19 March 2002

• Puzzle: Tricky trig

Issue No 11 June 2000

• Analemmatic Sundials: How to build one and why they work

Issue No 9 September 1999

• A Reader's Solution

Issue No 8 May 1999

• The Dynamic Sun
• Radio Controlled
• The Gobbling Goat

Vectors

Issue No 7 January 1999

• Time and Motion

Volumes of Revolution

Issue No 1 January 1997

• Puzzle No 1 - The Ring

Waves

Issue No 8 May 1999

• The Dynamic Sun
• Radio Controlled