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Adam Kucharski

Adam Kucharski is a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he works on analysis of infectious disease outbreaks, work that won him the 2023 Adams Prize for mathematics. He regularly appears in print and broadcast media and is the author of the recently published Proof: The Art and Science of Certainty. He lives in Hertfordshire, U.K.

When Monsters Came for Mathematics

Adam Kucharski’s 3 greatest revelations while writing <i>Proof: The Art and Science of Certainty</i>

June 13, 2025

Euclid as Founding Father

We hold this mathematics to be self evident.

October 7, 2016

Will the Earth Ever Fill Up?

We’ve predicted and broken human population limits for centuries.

September 24, 2015

Math’s Beautiful Monsters

How a destructive idea paved the way for modern math.

March 28, 2014