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Puzzles

More milk with your tea, or is that tea with your milk?

Can money turn the monarchy upside-down?

Will this ship of fools stay afloat?

Gobbling Gorillas

Can you help the gorilla grab his grub?

What happens when Santa gets confused?

More mathematical misfits for you to master

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Five of Euler's best

Five favourite problems inspired by Leonhard Euler, one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.
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.
Image © Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation / Flemming – 2016
Counting the trees of life

How many possible genetic relationships are there between a collection of different species? The answer is mind-bogglingly large.
There may be more than one of you

The possibility that there might be many parallel worlds has just become a little more likely.
Calculating the multiverse

If there's a multiverse, then how many of its component universes are like our own?

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