This week saw the last column in the Sexy Maths series in The Times for the time being. The newspaper is downsizing for the summer. It may reappear in a new reincarnation in the autumn. Here is an archive of links to all the columns that appeared during the year, some including the beautiful illustrations of Joe McLaren who will be illustrating my new book The Num8er My5teries.
1 Jul 2009 Oh, it’s such a perfect day. We have discovered 47 perfect numbers — the largest has nearly 26 million digits.
24 June 2009 How to avoid a grudge match. Never mind Arsenal against Spurs. How about NP versus P?
17 June 2009 Arithmetic eases swine flu. Figuring out the rate of contagion can make you feel better
10 June 2009 When it pays to play the odds. Mathematicians, and the laws of probability, can tell you whether to have a flutter, or keep hold of your money.
27 May 2009 A new bicycle reinvents the wheel, with a pentagon and triangle. Guan’s bicycle isn’t the first to exploit these shapes — they have been used by urban planners as manholes.
20 May 2009 A game of 12 pentagons. Why a football match is actually geometry in motion.
13 May 2009 in search of the poetry of Muslim symmetry. Galois’s group theory allowed mathematicians to articulate the theory of symmetry.
6 May 2009 Formula won ... the key to boosting faster travel. How mathematicians can get you to the Grand Prix finishing line — and through an airport — more quickly.
29 April 2009 The lemming theory. There is no mass suicide pact keeping the numbers of lemmings down.
22 April 2009 What's unique about the number 1,729?
15 April 2009 The Fibonacci sequence's prime rate.
8 April 2009 Drawing parallels in geometry. This year's Abel Prize honours some of the most revolutionary contributions to geometry since those of Euclid.
25 March 2009 Go fourth... into another dimension.
18 March 2009 Twists and turns that make a rollercoaster ride.
11 March 2009 A number-munching celebration.
4 March 2009 Ditch the GPS, just follow the colour code.
25 February 2009 Tails of a curious submariner. A US Marine with a lot of time on his hands has noticed that a strange thing happens when you keep tossing a coin.
18 February 2009 How to be a flipping genius. It's possible for me to toss a coin and you, who are somewhere else entirely, to know if I have called honestly.
11 February 2009 Why Palladio's proportions are pleasing on the eye and the ears.
4 February 2009 Why do snowflakes have six arms? Are your children out of school? Keep their grey matter going with a question that baffled generations of scientists.
28 January 2009 It's true, young Muggles. Maths can be magic.
21 January 2009 Rubik's Cube returns.
14 January 2009 Solving wobbly restaurant tables. Wedging beer mats or bits of paper under that annoying table leg is no more. Try the mathematical solution instead.
7 January 2009 Survival of the mathematician.
31 December 2008 How to be a perfect timekeeper.
17 December 2008 Warm up with a few festive candles.
10 December 2008 The symmetry of sneezing. Viruses blight many people's lives in winter but the molecular structure of many are things of mathematical beauty.
26 November 2008 Skills of a chess grandmaster.
19 November 2008To infinity - and beyond
12 November 2008 Get the upper hand at poker.
5 November 2008 Why democracy is an ass.
29 October 2008 Get your teeth into this.
22 October 2008 Why the taxman has your number.
15 October 2008 Sexy maths: a calculating approach to love. Mathematics can help you to maximise your chances of landing the best flat – or the best partner.
8 October 2008 Happy (birthday) coincidences. Why Premier League footballers are likely to have dates of birth in common, and how to win more money on the lottery.
1 October 2008 Primes of passion.
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