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Squashing the curve?
A study into Covid-19 suggests that flattening the curve will take longer and harder measures than previously hoped.
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Happy international women's day 2020
We celebrate Karen Uhlenbeck, first female winner of the Abel Prize, and some of the other female mathematicians we met over the last year.
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Happy pi day 2020!
Since pi is the number of round things, we devote this year's pi day celebrations to...curvature!
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Freeman Dyson dies at 96
The "free-range mathematician" and "architect of particle physics" has passed away in Princeton.
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Myths of maths: The golden ratio
The golden ratio has many amazing properties. But is it really a secret of nature and the epitome of beauty?
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Fighting the coronavirus
As the world prepares for the worst, we explore the maths that can help us stop a pandemic.
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Maths in a minute: The information paradox
Explore a mystery that intrigued Stephen Hawking until the end of his life.
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Maths in a minute: Hawking radiation
Nothing, not even light, can escape from a black hole. Or can it? Find out about one of Stephen Hawking's most radical results.
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Football sweepstakes: Levelling the playing field
With just a few months to go until the UEFA European Cup, here's how you can make your office sweepstake a lot fairer and more exciting.
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Perfectly even
After 2000 years of searching we only know of 51 perfect numbers and they're all even. What else do and don't we know about these rare and precious jewels of maths?
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Perfectly odd
Nobody has ever found an odd perfect number. So do they exist at all and, if yes, what do they look like?
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A strange definition of perfect
Perfect numbers have foxed mathematicians for over 2000 years. Here's a quick look at the long struggle to find them.