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- New Millennium, New Name and New Look
- How to lie with statistics
- World maths year 2000
- Network capacity problem - issue 3 revisited
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The origins of proof IV: The philosophy of proof
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...
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Planets, planets everywhere
Up until the late 1990s, astronomers couldn't be certain that any planets existed outside our solar system. These days, not only are astronomers confident that planets are out there, but new ones are being discovered all the time.
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Self-similar syncopations: Fibonacci, L-systems, limericks and ragtime
Kevin Jones investigates the links between music and mathematics, throwing in limericks, Fibonacci and Scott Joplin along the way. Plus is proud to present an extended version of his winning entry for the THES/OUP 1999 Science Writing Prize.
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Maths Year 2000
Around the country, maths is set to have a high profile this year with the launch of a new initiative.
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Tickle your mathematical funny bone
Tickle your mathematical funnybone and get your own personal Black Chamber
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Looking out for number one
You might think that if you collected together a list of naturally-occurring numbers, then as many of them would start with a 1 as with any other digit, but you'd be quite wrong. Jon Walthoe explains why Benford's Law says otherwise, and why tax inspectors are taking an interest.