Stories by ColinWright

Predicting crime - a step towards a safer world?

Williams F1 struggling to find recruits with maths skills

Realtime comms data for the The Apollo 11 Lunar Landing

Playing With Matches - The math behind this year's Nobel Prize in Economics

Why aren't we doing the math?

(Historical) Harry Porter's Relay Computer

Mercury-Redstone 1 - The four inch flight

A Mathematician Hacked Into Google, Thinking It Was A Job Interview

Give social networks fake details, advises UK govt web security official

A formula for pi using just one digit (image)

Some things you might not know about the Moon

The Hodges Conjecture - a $1m prize question

Graphics That Make You Realize You Don’t Know How Big Anything Actually Is

Automatic Generation of Regular Expressions from Examples

Want to solve Rubik's Cube? Here's the "Think Maths" Guide (video)

We don't care what smart people think - there aren't that many of them.

The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics Education

Voyager: the space explorers that are still boldly going to the stars

The scientists who turned fresh air into petrol

Life hacks to make things easier