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John Milnor: A conversation with a mathematical legend

Why doing maths is like being Lewis Carroll's Red Queen and how to keep going beyond the formidable age of 84.

Answers on a donut – the Fields medal lecture of Manjul Bhargava

We enjoyed Manjul Bhargava's Fields medal lecture so much we wanted to share it with you!

The art of guessing

How to avoid tedious calculations.

Did chaos cause mayhem in Jurassic Park?

Was T-rex unleashed by mathematical chaos?

Maths in a minute: Watch your units!

How to lose a spacecraft in the most embarrassing way possible.

What is information?

Books, brains, computers — information comes in many guises. But what exactly is information?

Kissing the curve

Curves bring great beauty to our world. But how curvy is a curve?

Problems of gravity

Why (some) physicists want to modify Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Play to win with Nim

In the game of Nim one player always has a winning strategy — it depends on an unusual way of adding numbers.

The power of good questions

Asking good questions is an important part of doing maths. But what makes a good question?