We keep track of when the London Institute is reported in the press and on major blogs and podcasts. This includes pieces about our activities and members as well as the Institute itself—but not about specific research papers, which are covered in Discoveries in the news.

  • Nature

    Physics & maths16 Jul

    Langlands unlocked

    The geometric Langlands proof brings mathematicians a step closer to a grand unified theory, Ananyo Bhattacharya writes in a Nature feature.

  • Financial Times

    Artificial Intelligence11 Jun

    A Fields Medal for AI?

    The Financial Times features Prof. Yang-Hui He in a piece highlighting the potential impact of future AI models on academic mathematicians.

  • Perspective Magazine

    Philanthropy8 Jun

    A restless billionaire

    Ben Delo talks to Thomas W. Hodgkinson about overcoming Asperger’s, smoking the competition, and why he likes the London Institute.

  • AI-assisted maths21 May

    Talking murmurations

    Prof. Yang-Hui He discusses AI breakthroughs in mathematics with podcaster Curt Jaimungal–including his work on the murmuration conjecture.

  • The Spectator

    Science funding3 Apr

    My passion for maths

    In a time of government cuts to mathematics, the entrepreneur and philanthropist Ben Delo explains why he’s funding a new Fellowship at LIMS.

  • AI-assisted maths2 Jan

    The AI mathematician

    On the Theories of Everything podcast, Prof. Yang-Hui He explains how machine learning is helping to revolutionise mathematical discovery.

  • The Times

    Russia & Ukraine1 Nov 2024

    Re-ordering Russia

    Mikhail Khodorkovsky talks to Thomas W. Hodgkinson about the future of Russia and why he supports Fellowships at the London Institute.

  • Nautilus

    Physics & maths4 Sep 2024

    From physics into maths

    Why are physical insights from the real world proving so useful for solving abstruse problems in pure mathematics, Ananyo Bhattacharya asks.

  • HBR

    Org intelligence 29 Aug 2024

    Spreading the word

    In the Harvard Business Review, our trustee Martin Reeves and co-authors explain how ‘evolvable scripts’ greatly improve knowledge-sharing.

  • The Times

    Science funding15 Aug 2024

    Life of Riley

    The Times' science editor interviews our new Trustee, Talulah Riley, about her love of physics and her work with the London Institute.

  • The Spectator

    Creativity13 Apr 2024

    Talking is thinking

    Talking engages robust muscles of thought—not least when mathematicians take their problems to the blackboard, argues Thomas Hodgkinson.

  • Mood podcast

    Creativity18 Mar 2024

    Creative convergence

    The advertising guru Graham Fink waxes lyrical about equations and working with the London Institute on the How Do You Feel Today? podcast.

  • Ri

    Geometry29 Feb 2024

    Geometry’s dominion

    Following his popular Discourse, Yang-Hui He joins writer Madeleine Hall to talk about the mysteries of geometry on the Ri Science podcast.

  • Bloomberg

    Russia & Ukraine20 Feb 2024

    Security and freedom

    A Bloomberg piece names our Arnold & Landau Fellowships as one of the few programmes offering help to Russian and Ukrainian scientists.

  • interview

    Russia & Ukraine22 May 2023

    The language of maths

    A piece in The Times explains how, thanks to our Arnold and Landau Fellowships, theorists divided by war can find a common denominator.

  • The spectator

    Science history4 Apr 2023

    What are the chances?

    In The Spectator, our writer Madeleine Hall hails John Venn, who pioneered not only Venn diagrams but also frequentist probability.

  • Nautilus

    Science history14 Mar 2023

    The big bang

    A century ago, in our rooms in Mayfair, Sir James Dewar died. Our writer Thomas Hodgkinson pays tribute to the inventor of cordite in Nautilus.

  • The Washington Post

    Evolvability1 May 2022

    Death, be not proud

    The Washington Post explains how man's mad search for immortality is getting serious in our cell programming collaboration with bit.bio.

  • the times

    Physics & maths12 Jun 2021

    Challenging Times

    Is free will a mathematical problem? How about immortality? Or the quest for AI? The Times reports on our 23 Mathematical Challenges.

  • THE SPECTATOR

    Physics & maths17 Dec 2020

    A singular mind

    In an interview with Thomas Fink, Sir Roger Penrose talks about his Nobel Prize, the beauty of physics—and why AI is nothing to fear.

  • FORBES

    Cell coding13 Nov 2020

    LIMS-bit.bio

    Forbes explains how the London Institute, working with the biologists at bit.bio, may revolutionise our understanding of human life.

  • the times

    Cell coding27 Oct 2020

    LIMS-bit.bio

    The Times welcomes the collaboration between London Institute mathematicians and the biologists at bit.bio to crack cell reprogramming.

  • Verdict

    Cell coding22 Oct 2020

    Maths, meet biology

    Verdict reports on the collaboration between the London Institute and cell coding company bit.bio to decode the operating system of life.

  • High Life

    Physics & maths1 Apr 2019

    Sage of discovery

    British Airways’ inflight magazine runs a three-page profile of the London Institute, its founder and its new approach to doing science.