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Fourier transforms of images
How to make images out of ripples of pixels...
Women of mathematics
Celebrate female mathematicians with this selection of interviews and videos, which accompany the Women of Mathematics photo exhibition.
Strategic dating: The 37% rule
Are you stumped by the dating game? Never fear — Plus is here! This article looks at one of the central questions of dating: how many people should you date before settling for something serious?
Who's watching: Context is everything
Imagine your weight depended on the colour of your underwear! Something quite similar may be happening when you are measuring things in quantum physics. Find out more here...
Fantastic Fibonacci
Bees do it, rabbits do it, and luckily, we humans can do it too: explore the famous Fibonacci sequence!
Watch and learn?
Can the very act of observing something change what's being observed? This series of articles and videos explores some basic questions about the role of the observers in physics.
The shape of things to come: part i
This year's Nobel Prize for Physics brings together the physics of materials with one of our favourite areas of maths – topology.
The mathematics of kindness
If only the fittest survive, how can we explain the evolution of altruism? Mathematics has some answers.
Cut your cake and eat it (eventually)
Computer scientists have made a breakthrough in the theory of cake cutting.
Hunting and being hunted
A model of the interaction between predators and prey explains why sometimes frogs appear to eat snakes.
Where's the maths in beer?
There's actually quite a lot of maths in beer. To convince you of this, here are three beer-related maths stories.
Probably magic!
When you shuffle a deck of cards chances are the order of cards you produced has never been produced before! Find out why and learn a card trick too!
Spotting lizards
Are pretty lizard patterns the result of a living cellular automaton?
Introducing Florence Nightingale
A brief introduction to the famous nurse and statistician.
Uncovering the mathematics of information
Taming big data – Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb tells us about a new institute researching the mathematics of information
Maths in a minute: The knapsack problem
The simple act of packing your luggage can open a complex can of worms.
'Weapons of math destruction'
To what extent do algorithms dictate our lives and is that a good thing? Cathy O'Neil's book explores the use of mathematical models.
Maths in a minute: Cellular automata
Mindless games can produce surprising results.