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Black Heroes of Mathematics 2021

This inspiring conference featured speakers from Africa, the US, the Caribbean and the UK. Here are some highlights.

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Keeping people safe at large events

How can sporting events, concerts, or festivals be kept safe in the face of rising COVID-19 infections?

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Category theory: from genes to gravity

A quick introduction to an abstract concept that's useful in anything from genetics to cosmology.

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Maths in a Minute: The wagon wheel effect

Have you ever noticed the strange phenomenon of wheels appearing to move backwards while the vehicle is moving forwards? Aadit Jain explains why!

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Opening the black box

The organisers of a new INI programme explain why we need to know more about the maths behind machine learning and deep neural networks.

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Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

We celebrate with some of our friends, all women doing pioneering work using machine learning in a wide range of applications.

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Maths in a minute: Semi-supervised machine learning

Machine learning started with supervised learning and us providing all the training materials, but we are finding ways for algorithms to learn with far fewer resources.

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Mathematics without borders

The International Mathematical Union has celebrated its 100th anniversary with a conference entitled Mathematics without borders.

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Maths in a minute: The prime number theorem

A quick look at one of the most important theorems in number theory.

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COVID-19 and universities: What do we know?

What can last year's experiences tell us about the coming academic year?

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Maths in a minute: Gradient descent algorithms

Whether you're lost on a mountainside, or training a neural network, you can rely on the gradient descent algorithm to show you the way!

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Maths in a minute: Machine learning and neural networks

Machine learning makes many daily activities possible, but how does it work?

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Black Heroes of Mathematics 2021

Keeping people safe at large events

Category theory: from genes to gravity

Maths in a Minute: The wagon wheel effect

Opening the black box

Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

Maths in a minute: Semi-supervised machine learning

Mathematics without borders

Maths in a minute: The prime number theorem

COVID-19 and universities: What do we know?

Maths in a minute: Gradient descent algorithms

Maths in a minute: Machine learning and neural networks