Science and maths skills are widely celebrated as keys to economic and technological progress, but abstract mathematics may seem bafflingly far from industrial optimisation or medical imaging. Pure ...

And now for a real paradox, one which leads to a genuinely illogical conclusion, and which led to an upheaval in the study of the foundations of Mathematics. Around 1902, Gottlob Frege was completing ...

If you don’t know what to do, do something. That’s one of my mottos when I teach math (and it’s probably good life advice too). Last year, I taught introductory analysis (basically calculus with the ...