Peter Lynch

In the ‘calculus wars’ Britain claimed it was invented by Newton, while the Germans insisted it was Leibniz

That’s Maths: Langlands program one of most ambitious efforts to unify different branches

We must find ways to minimise or avoid further damage to the atmosphere and oceans

The IMS deals with high level stuff, but an opening exists for a group catering to the layperson

The one-time stockbroker from Belfast was considered dynamic and gregarious

We currently believe the age to be about 4.5bn years

Decreasing average speed of traffic can increase overall flow volume

That’s Maths: Construction of set of numbers inspired by conception of physical world

That’s Maths: Rudolph Kalman’s method is almost ideal to calculate velocity changes

That’s Maths: Light travels more easily through air of lower density

Easy to construct, and always a chance of finding something never seen before

Analysis suggests part of the coronavirus has the structure of a truncated octahedron

That’s Maths: Decimal points come with costs that may not fine-tune ensemble forecasts

It is all too evident in everyday life: a broken egg cannot be put together again

That’s Maths: Ship’s impact with iceberg could, arguably, have been avoided

There is a well-developed mathematical theory of queues, covering several stages of the process

Falsehood of the conjecture is incompatible with unprovability

Can machine learning help narrow confidence gap in climate-change forecasts?

That’s Maths: Many problems are hard to solve but easy to verify, such as Sudoku puzzles

The vast body of mathematics owes more to Euler than to any other single person

Important questions about atmospheric tides remain unanswered

John Horton Conway’s ingenious algorithim allows us determine the weekday for any given date

Mapmakers and tilers have found how elegant variation can be achieved with care

A new grid was established about 20 years ago and has become the standard

Technology and analysis improve weather prediction by a day per decade

2020 Hamilton lecture to be delivered via video link from Los Angeles

That’s Maths: The universe is profoundly mathematical in nature, and we do not really understand why

While human intuition and creativity are key elements of logic, they can be replicated

The word ‘centibillionaire’ is a linguistic travesty

Life beyond our berth in space is a matter of conjecture . . . perhaps even a numbers game

Resolution of paradox: A gateway to mathematical progress

That’s Maths: Influential Hungarian took up position in Dias in 1954

That’s Maths: The search for ever-larger numbers has been given the evocative name googology

In the age of ‘big data’ voluminous data collections are mined for information

The modelling work is a wonderful example of blending the techniques of applied mathematics and statistics

Albrecht Dürer, born in 1471, believed ‘the new art must be based upon science’

Limerick academic extended Greek astronomer Ptolemy’s theorem and wrote six widely used textbooks

Disease grew exponentially in its initial stages but that cannot continue indefinitely

A rating system originally developed for chess is used to match evenly-skilled players