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News from the world of maths: The return of More or Less

May 19, 2008

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May 19, 2008

Geometrical music theory

May 19, 2008

Translating music into geometry

News from the world of maths:

May 15, 2008

News from the world of maths: The Plus podcast: Cosmic imagery

May 15, 2008

W. W. Sawyer passes away

May 15, 2008

Great educational thinker dies

News from the world of maths: Gresham College: New Gresham Professor of Geometry

May 12, 2008

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May 6, 2008

Blood, oil and water

Sara Zahedi has won a prestigious prize at the European Congress of Maths. Your future medical diagnoses, and even the welfare of sea life, may depend on her work.
Counting the trees of life

How many possible genetic relationships are there between a collection of different species? The answer is mind-bogglingly large.
What do you think?

Mathematicians explore how opinions spread through a society.
Introducing Andrew Wiles

In these two short videos the legendary Andrew Wiles talks about what it was like to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, and what it feels like to do maths.
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Stuff happens: From finance to fundamental physics

Current physical theories suggest that beautiful symmetries underly the fundamental particles and forces of nature. We describe those symmetries using an analogy from economics, and even rediscover the famous Higgs boson.

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