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Barry Phipps tells Plus how he bridges the gap between the arts and sciences as an exhibition curator.

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What is life - and does it exist elsewhere in the universe?

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June 2008
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Robert Hunt concludes our Origins of Proof series by asking what a proof really is, and how we know that we've actually found one. One for the philosophers to ponder...

Tags: proof : philosophy of mathematics : axiom : Fermat's Last Theorem : four-colour theorem : minimal criminal