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Ada Lovelace - visions of today

We celebrate the 200th birthday of Ada Lovelace, who anticipated modern computers long before they were built, with a look at her life and work.
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Playing with numbers

Here's a game: pick a positive natural number and if yours is the smallest number no one else has picked, you win. What's the best strategy?
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Ramanujan surprises again

A fascinating discovery sheds new light on the work of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.