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Open wide...

Mathematics shows that open source software beats closed source software in the race to fix bugs.
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Dancing with Einstein

The Institute of Physics and Rambert Dance Company are planning to celebrate the theories of Einstein through dance.
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Mission to Mars

The geometry says that now is the right time for a mission to Mars.
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Is now a good time?

Mathematics is helping machines decide when is the best time to interrupt us with a call or email.
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Mind the gap

Can Dan Goldston and Cem Yalcin Yildrim repair the hole in their proof to make the biggest breakthrough in prime number theory for 80 years?
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Understanding influenza

Researchers have used mathematical modelling to understand the evolution of the influenza virus.
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Mathematical millionaire?

The mathematics of Grigori Perelman may earn him a million dollars, if no holes are found in his proof of the Poincaré Conjecture.
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Write maths and win cash!

Win cold hard cash and bring mathematics to the people by entering the THES and OUP science writing competition.
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How maths can make you rich and famous: Part II

One million dollars is waiting to be won by anyone who can solve one of the grand mathematical challenges of the 21st century. In the second of two articles, Chris Budd looks at the well-posedness of the Navier-Stokes equations.
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The crystal ball

If you had a crystal ball that allowed you to see your future, what would you arrange differently about your finances? Plus talks to the Government Actuary, Chris Daykin about the pensions crisis, and how actuaries use statistical and modelling techniques to plan for all our futures.
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A whirlpool of numbers

The Riemann Hypothesis is probably the hardest unsolved problem in all of mathematics, and one of the most important. It has to do with prime numbers - the building blocks of arithmetic. Nick Mee, together with Sir Arthur C. Clarke, tells us about the patterns hiding inside numbers.
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Model behaviour

To study a system, mathematicians begin by identifying its most crucial elements, and try to describe them in simple mathematical terms. As Phil Wilson tells us, this simplification is the essence of mathematical modelling.