Articles by Matthew Wright

Using Markov chains to calculate some interesting tennis stats!

The discovery of gravitational waves offers a new way of looking at the universe. Who knows what we will discover?

We speak to one of Britain's most successful popularisers of maths

Amaze your friends with our top facts about the new largest known prime number

We have received loads of feedback from people telling us their favourite function

Take two phone books and interleave all their pages one by one. Now try and pull them apart by their spines. Impossible, right?

A selection of our favourite mathematical blogs

What the Guardian got wrong...

Choosing which charity we donate money to shouldn't be an entirely emotional decision.

Matthew Wright looks at wormholes in sci-fi