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Spinning in space
Will Einstein's general theory of relativity hold true?
Game theory wins Nobel prize
Two game theorists share prize for their analyses of conflict and cooperation
Just a second
A brief history of time keeping
Love's a gamble
Mathematicians in search of romantic success
Spaghetti breakthrough
What happens to bent pasta?
How to measure a million
measuring money
The risks in Who wants to be a millionaire?
Not just knots: the secrets of khipu
The Inka way of counting
Machine prose
A computer program that can learn languages
A new time machine
Take a journey to the limits of common sense
Gene-ius
The search for the maths gene
Networks: nasty and nice
Maths brings down the Mafia
The artist's fractal fingerprint
Fractal geometry can identify Jackson Pollock's paintings