Mathematics

Science and Faith

Alister McGrath on the nature of belief

Whether we realize it or not, we are all people of faith at some level

Rupert Shortt

Can you make a thriller about math?

With six installments yet to come, Prime Target might yet find a way to convincingly combine its love of math with its genre

James Walton

How Bayes’s theorem ‘explains the world’

In Everything is Predictable, Tom Chivers spends a lot of time-discussing the importance of subjectivity in Bayesian statistics

Alexander Masters

Illinois high school offers racially segregated math classes

‘This course is restricted to students who identify as Latinx’

Amber Duke

Book Review

Carlo Rovelli marvels over the first scientist

Anaximander was the first human to say that Earth was an object floating in space with no means of support

Steven Poole