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Communicating the coronavirus crisis

David Spiegelhalter, expert in risk and evidence communication, tells us how well the UK government has done so far communicating about Covid-19.
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The Abel Prize 2020

This year's Abel Prize has been awarded to Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis.
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Squashing the curve?

A study into Covid-19 suggests that flattening the curve will take longer and harder measures than previously hoped.
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Happy pi day 2020!

Since pi is the number of round things, we devote this year's pi day celebrations to...curvature!
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Freeman Dyson dies at 96

The "free-range mathematician" and "architect of particle physics" has passed away in Princeton.
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Perfectly even

After 2000 years of searching we only know of 51 perfect numbers and they're all even. What else do and don't we know about these rare and precious jewels of maths?