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No need for words
Where does our ability to do abstract maths come from? A new study sheds some fascinating light on the question.
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Snakes and adders
How can an electronic device fed on a diet of 0s and 1s perform complex tasks? We explore the workings of computers using an example.
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Happy birthday Claude Shannon!
You may not have heard his name, but you're making use of his work
every single day: Claude Shannon, hailed the father of the
information age, would have turned 100 this week.
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Maths in a minute: Boolean algebra
Meet the algebra at the heart of your computer!
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Maths in a minute: Simplifying circuits
Claude Shannon's ingenious insight linking physical circuits with Boolean algebra paved the way for modern computing.
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Explaining weirdness with weirdness
A very strange way of explaining away the strangeness of quantum mechanics.
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Preserving species in the face of climate change
Can mathematics predict the inevitable consequences of climate change? And more importantly, can it suggest ways to reduce, or even prevent some of these consequences?
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What the eye can't see
From cancer treatments to counting trees: the maths behind image analysis makes it all possible.
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Maths in a minute: The central limit theorem
Opinion polls, election forecasts, testing new medical drugs — none of these would be possible without the central limit theorem.
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Don't judge a black hole by its area
Find out how some black holes are bigger on the inside than they are on the outside.
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Maths in a minute: n-body problems
Why too many bodies present a problem.
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Stop taking the p
Why a time-honoured statistical tool is becoming problematic.