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Crimes and earthquakes
How the maths that is used to predict earthquakes can help fight gang crime.
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Staying anonymous
A team of computer scientists has found a weakness in the world's most popular anonymity service.
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Rewriting the enormous theorem
Mathematicians are busy tidying up the largest proof in history.
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Elliptic cryptography
How a special kind of curve can keep your data safe.
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Maths in a minute: Pretend primes
Fermat's little theorem and fake primes.
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From Arsenal to RSA: An interview with Marcus du Sautoy
Marcus du Sautoy talks about football, cryptography, and numbers.
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Why wait a second?
Why today is 24 hours and 1 second long.
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How high is your frustum?
How calculating the height of a frustum gave a glimpse of the mathematical frontier.
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Another way of voting
Should we let go of the "one person, one vote" principle?
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Kissing the curve – manifolds in many dimensions
Following on from our previous article about curvature of lines and surfaces, we now move up to curvature of their higher dimensional equivalent – manifolds.
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Life's quantum crystal ball
Does the ability to predict the future define the fundamental difference between living and inanimate matter?