Using mathematicsto understandthe world

WEBSITE
Our journals
Our new Journals page provides a guide to the journals we have published in, as well some journals that we haven’t, but would like to.
News
Move to the RI
We are delighted to announce that we have moved to the Royal Institution, where we will expand our programme of curiosity-driven research.
Press
From zero to IRO
If the government wants a broader ecosystem of scientific research organisations, it needs to support non-university science. Here’s how.
Projects
Recursively divisible
Generalizing the divisor function to find a new kind of number that can be recursively divided into parts, for use in design and technology.
Events
Cell programming maths
A one-day, in-person symposium at the Royal Institution on theoretical models of cell programming and their applications to biomedicine.
PEOPLE
Welcome, Sarah
Welcome to our new director of development Sarah Myers Cornaby. She’ll be leading our fundraising and strategy for growing the Institute.
PAPERS
True scale-free networks
Naturally occurring networks have an underlying scale-free structure that is often clouded by finite-size effects in the sample data.
Events
Superstrings and AI
Yang Hui talks about how string phenomenology has led from differential geometry to computational geometry and now to machine learning.
Where we publish
Who's funding us
Adtones
Boston Consulting Group
BCG Henderson Institute
BitBio
Cancer Research UK
Centre for Defence Enterprise
Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency
Defence Threat Reduction Agency
European Innovation Council
Framework Programme 7
Garfield Weston Foundation
Horizon 2020
Invenia Labs
LIMS Ventures
Medical Research Council
Office of Naval Research
Porter Foundation
Rose Foundation
Edward Harvist Trust
European Commission Migration and Home Affairs