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How a game of billiards solved a queueing problem
Using the trajectory of a billiard ball to assign customers to queues.
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Packing balls in higher dimensions
How to optimally fill a box with eight-dimensional oranges.
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Where would the world be without mathematics?
A new competition invites young people aged 11 to 19 to explore the history of maths for a chance to win cash prizes.
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Andrew Wiles wins Abel Prize!
One of the greatest honours in maths has been awarded for the proof of Fermat's last theorem.
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Ping pong balls, infinity and superpowers
Playing with infinity can lead to surprising outcomes – find out how with a big bag of balls and some superpowers.
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Chaos from order
How simples rules can result in very complex outcomes.
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Order behind chaos
We all know what symmetry is. But why does it play such a central role in modern physics?
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Symmetry making and symmetry breaking
A closer look at the power of symmetry in physics.
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Laws and disorder
Can simple equations really describe the complex world we live in?
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Black holes exist!
Finally we can be sure — black holes, those gravitational monsters that gobble up everything that gets too close to them, do exist.
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Spacetime does ripple
Physicists have finally detected the gravitational waves they have been chasing for nearly 100 years.
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Infinite sums and China's demographics
China has recently revoked its one-child policy. What better occasion to explore the mathematics of population growth with a surprising example.