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Staying anonymous
A team of computer scientists has found a weakness in the world's most popular anonymity service.
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Rewriting the enormous theorem
Mathematicians are busy tidying up the largest proof in history.
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Elliptic cryptography
How a special kind of curve can keep your data safe.
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Maths in a minute: Pretend primes
Fermat's little theorem and fake primes.
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From Arsenal to RSA: An interview with Marcus du Sautoy
Marcus du Sautoy talks about football, cryptography, and numbers.
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Why wait a second?
Why today is 24 hours and 1 second long.
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How high is your frustum?
How calculating the height of a frustum gave a glimpse of the mathematical frontier.
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Another way of voting
Should we let go of the "one person, one vote" principle?
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Kissing the curve – manifolds in many dimensions
Following on from our previous article about curvature of lines and surfaces, we now move up to curvature of their higher dimensional equivalent – manifolds.
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Life's quantum crystal ball
Does the ability to predict the future define the fundamental difference between living and inanimate matter?
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Mindless searching
How stupid systems can use clever ways of finding things.
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What is general relativity?
To celebrate the centenary of the general theory of relativity we asked physicist David Tong to explain the theory and the equation that expresses it. Watch the video or read the article!