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Did chaos cause mayhem in Jurassic Park?Was T-rex unleashed by mathematical chaos?
Maths in a minute: Watch your units!How to lose a spacecraft in the most embarrassing way possible.
What is information?Books, brains, computers — information comes in many guises. But what exactly is information?
Kissing the curve – the gruesome details
Kissing the curveCurves bring great beauty to our world. But how curvy is a curve?
Problems of gravityWhy (some) physicists want to modify Einstein's general theory of relativity.
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Play to win with NimIn the game of Nim one player always has a winning strategy — it depends on an unusual way of adding numbers.
Smooth manifolds
The power of good questionsAsking good questions is an important part of doing maths. But what makes a good question?
The art gallery problemSometimes a piece of maths can be so neat and elegant, it makes you want to shout "eureka!" even if you haven't produced it yourself. One of our favourite examples is the art gallery problem.
Blink and you'll miss it: The free kick in football (part II)In the first part of this article we let maths set the scene for a free kick. Now we continue the drama, tracing the trajectory of the ball throughout the milliseconds it takes it to reach the goal line.
Blink and you'll miss it: The free kick in football (part I)Free kicks will deliver much of the drama in the football world cup this summer. But how should strikers approach them and how does the design on the ball impact on its behaviour in flight? Maths can give us answers...