Articles

Get ready to play ‘guess the viral variant’

Wired

Fragmented outbreak data will lead to a repeat of COVID-19

Nature

How modelling Covid has changed the way we think about epidemics

The Guardian

The new Covid variants are a peril to us all

Financial Times

How COVID-19 models work, and why we need them

The Guardian

What we don't know about COVID-19 can hurt us

Time

The pandemic playbook: A step-by-step guide to containing an outbreak

New Scientist

El contagio de la desinformación

El País

How maths is helping to answer crucial COVID-19 questions

New Scientist

Misinformation on the coronavirus might be the most contagious thing about it

The Guardian

So just how deadly could China’s coronavirus get?

The Times

The future of medicine (book chapter in What's Next)

Profile Books

Euclid as Founding Father

Nautilus

These poker-playing robots can bluff better than humans

Wired

How winning at cards can help you win at life

New Scientist

Betting and investment both require skill and luck

Financial Times

How to beat the house: the science behind gamblers' hot streaks

The Daily Beast

Seven lucky ways that gambling changed maths

The Guardian

How science and statistics are taking over sport

New Statesman

How a group of MIT students gamed the Massachusetts State Lottery (book extract)

The Atlantic

How to build an unbeatable poker-playing robot (book extract)

The Atlantic

How to tackle a lottery with mathematics

KDnuggets

Will the Earth ever fill up?

Nautilus

Mosquito Press (a short story)

2015 Bath Short Story Award Anthology

Book reviews: Professor Povey's Perplexing Problems, The Birth of a Theorem

BBC Focus

Immunity's illusion

Scientific American

Help West Africa in its Ebola crisis

London Evening Standard

The calculus of contagion

Aeon

Finding Apollo (book chapter in 50 Visions of Mathematics)

Oxford University Press

Math's beautiful monsters

Nautilus

Book review: The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets

BBC Focus

Forget perfect pizzas, here are four things simple maths really can help you with

Quartz/The Conversation

How can I win at Christmas board games?

BBC Focus

Keep it simple, stupid: Maths doesn’t have to be “complex”

SciAm blogs/The Conversation

Exploring the financial ecosystem

Plus Magazine

The shortlist (a short story)

Nature

Factoring in face time

The Scientist

Chaos reigns

BBC Focus

Book reviews: Mathletics, The Joy of X, Math on Trial, Naked Statistics

BBC Focus

In need of a number

The Observer

Understanding the unseen

Plus Magazine

The family tree of an epidemic

CHANCE Magazine

Mapping the mind's eye

Plus Magazine

Finding the source of an epidemic

Significance

Keeping track of immunity

Plus Magazine

Book review: Mathematics of life

Plus Magazine