Plus Magazine Explained

Plus Magazine is an online popular mathematics magazine run under the Millennium Mathematics Project at the University of Cambridge.

Plus contains:

• feature articles on all aspects of mathematics;
• reviews of popular maths books and events;
• a news section;
• mathematical puzzles and games;
• interviews with people in maths related careers;
• Plus Podcast – Maths on the Move

History

Plus was initially named PASS Maths (Public Awareness and Schools Support for Maths) in 1997, when it was a project of the Interactive Courseware Research and Development Group, based jointly at the University of Cambridge and Keele University. Plus is now part of the Millennium Mathematics Project, a long term national initiative based in Cambridge and active across the UK and internationally.

Authors of articles in Plus include Stephen Hawking^[1] and Marcus du Sautoy.^[2]

Plus won the 2001 Webby for Best Science Site on the Web,^[3] and has been described as "an excellent site put together by those with a real love for the subject".^[4] In 2006 the Millennium Mathematics Project, of which Plus is a part, won the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher Education.^[5]

Notes and References

1. http://plus.maths.org/issue18/features/hawking/index.html Stephen Hawking's 60 years in a nutshell
2. http://plus.maths.org/issue28/features/sautoy/ The music of the primes
3. Web site: Home. https://web.archive.org/web/20130307220258/http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=5. 7 March 2013.
4. http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/links/mathematics/0,,474723,00.html Higher education news
5. http://www.royalanniversarytrust.org.uk/the-prizes/previous-prize-winners?archive%5Bkeywords%5D=Millennium+Mathematics+Project&x=0&y=0&archive%5Byears%5D=&archive%5Bcountries%5D=&archive%5Binstitutions_type%5D=&archive%5Bsubjectarea%5D=&sort%5Binst_name%5D=asc# Previous Prize winners