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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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Mathematics makes a clean sweep in the Nobel Prizes.

Tags: astronomy : Nobel prize : physics : Chemistry : Medicine : Economics : genes


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Researchers have used mathematical modelling to understand the evolution of the influenza virus.

Tags: epidemiology : statistical prediction : Medicine : Stochastic model : evolution


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What's the risk of passive smoking? Or climate change? How big is the terrorist threat? And should we trust league tables? These issues concern all of us, but it's not always easy to make sense of the barrage of media information. David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk, gives Plus his take on uncertainty.

Tags: Bayes Theorem : risk analysis : public understanding of mathematics : mathematics in the media : medical statistics : Medicine : uncertainty : Bayesian model


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How advanced mathematical techniques save lives.

Tags: operational research : Medicine


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A new Bayesian network helps predict the severity of the disease

Tags: Bayes Theorem : Medicine : bayesian network


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Take part in research from home, and help defeat malaria with Africa@home.

Tags: distributed computing : Medicine : Malaria