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John Haigh: Celebrating the maths in everyday life

It's with great sadness that we learnt about the death of John Haigh last week. As a small tribute to Haigh here is a collection of articles he wrote or co-wrote for Plus.

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László Lovász: Working mathematical miracles

László Lovász has won one half of the Abel Prize 2021 for fundamental contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete maths.

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Avi Wigderson: "It's good to have hard problems"

You are faced with a difficult problem, it is not easily solved. How do you feel? Well, if you are Avi Wigderson, one of the winners of the 2021 Abel Prize, you are very happy!

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Celebrating Pi Day with the shiniest of numbers!

From rabbits, to beauty, to myths and more – we celebrate Pi Day with the shiniest and most irrational of numbers!

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Triangular number patterns

There are triangular numbers hiding all over the standard multiplication table! Find out how to discover them in this article!

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Happy International Women's Day 2021!

From the mathematics of shuffling to tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, we've really enjoyed speaking to all of these female mathematicians about their work over the last year.

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