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News from the world of maths: Bicycles in London modelling contest run and won

July 17, 2008

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July 16, 2008

July 16, 2008

Solving two unrelated problems at once

News from the world of maths:

July 3, 2008

News from the world of maths: Global war death toll should be tripled

July 3, 2008

Will you be my friend?

July 3, 2008

Have you got as many friends as you think?

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July 1, 2008

Pi appears in crop circle

July 1, 2008

Well educated aliens

Maths in a minute

Want facts and want them fast? Our Maths in a minute series explores key mathematical concepts in just a few words.

Where's the maths in beer?

There's actually quite a lot of maths in beer. Here are three beer-related maths stories.
Introducing Florence Nightingale

A brief introduction to the famous nurse and statistician.
Spotting lizards

Are pretty lizard patterns the result of a living cellular automaton?
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!
Maths in a minute: Cellular automata

Mindless games can produce surprising results.

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