
Matt is a PhD student at UCL, working in the fields of general relativity and cosmology.
Tennis maths: how long should a deuce point last?
Using Markov chains to calculate some interesting tennis stats!A brief history of gravitational waves
The discovery of gravitational waves offers a new way of looking at the universe. Who knows what we will discover?In conversation with Ian Stewart
We speak to one of Britain's most successful popularisers of mathsNew largest prime number discovered!
Amaze your friends with our top facts about the new largest known prime numberWhat’s your favourite function? Part II
We have received loads of feedback from people telling us their favourite functionWhy is it so hard to pull two phone books apart?
Take two phone books and interleave all their pages one by one. Now try and pull them apart by their spines. Impossible, right?Our Favourite Blogs
A selection of our favourite mathematical blogsWill the Universe actually end in a big rip?
What the Guardian got wrong...Can we do good more effectively?
Choosing which charity we donate money to shouldn't be an entirely emotional decision.Interstellar travel: the mathematics of wormholes
Matthew Wright looks at wormholes in sci-fi