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Rupa Patel reflects to Plus on her work as a financial engineer

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When we finally meet the Martians, John Conway believes they are going to want to talk mathematics.

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March 2008
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frequency

Tags: bandwidth : signal processing : frequency : polarisation : electric field : magnetic field : scattering


Tags: helioseismology : frequency : astroseismology : sound wave : standing wave : acoustic oscillation : Doppler shift


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Skot McDonald talks to Plus about how he uses mathematics to understand music, and how he managed to combine his passions for music and computing to create a successful career.

Tags: mathematics and music : harmonic series : frequency : Fourier analysis : Digital signal processing


An account of how a prisoner of war's diary was recently decoded. Donald Hill wrote his diary in a numerical code, disguised as a set of mathematical tables, while in Hong Kong during and after the Japanese invasion of 1941.

Tags: frequency : substitution cipher : transposition cipher


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According to Shakespeare, music is the food of love. But Jeffrey Rosenthal follows Galileo's observation that the entire universe is written in the language of mathematics - and that includes music.

Tags: mathematics and music : frequency : wave : pitch : octave : harmony : chord


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In the first of two articles, David Henwood discusses the vibrations that can be harnessed by musical instrument makers.

Tags: mathematics and music : oscillation : differential equation : frequency : mode : spring


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We take reliable radio communications for granted, but accommodating many different users is not easy. Robert Leese explains how the mathematics of colouring graphs can help avoid interference on your mobile phone.

Tags: interference : frequency : wavelength : Fourier analysis : graph theory : algorithm : electromagnetism : radio wave : AM (Amplitude Modulation) : FM (Frequency Modulation) : channel assignment problem


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Mathematics takes out a technology oscar.

Tags: frequency : Fourier analysis : Digital signal processing


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Mathematics takes out a technology oscar.

Tags: frequency : Fourier analysis : Digital signal processing