Gavin Harper is a mathematician working right at the heart of genetics
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A Galileo of number theory
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The state of the Arctic
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How do you know a drug works? Should it be free on the NHS?
Plus podcast 22, February 2010: Evaluating a medical treatment
How can a 3 hour long film like the Lord of the Rings fit on a single DVD? Hw cn U rd txt msgs? How do MP3s make music files smaller, so they can be downloaded faster off the Internet? All these things rely on the mathematics of data compression.
