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Hilbert's hotelHow to squeeze infinitely many new guests into a full hotel.
Maths in a minute: The golden ratioA quick introduction to a famous number.
Maths in a minute: PenguinsWe can't let penguin awareness day pass without a look at some penguin maths.
Maths in a minute: The graph isomorphism problemHow fast can you tell whether two networks are the same?
Spontaneous spiralsSimple mathematical rules can make for some interesting psychedelic science.
Simone Biles: Defying the laws of physics?Simone Biles stunned audiences at the 2016 Olympics with a move that appeared to defy gravity. Did it really? Two sports scientists explain the physics of the Biles.
Maths in a minute: The catenaryChains, arches and Wembley Stadium.
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Andrew Wiles: what does it feel like to do maths?We were very excited to meet Andrew Wiles this summer! In this interview and videos he tells us what it was like to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, and what it feels like to do maths.
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Maths in a minute: Fourier series How the heat equation inspired the maths that powers the entertainment industry.
Bach and the musical Möbius stripDiscover (and listen to) the Möbius strip that's hidden within one of Bach's famous canons.
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The shape of things to come: part iThis year's Nobel Prize for Physics brings together the physics of materials with one of our favourite areas of maths – topology.
Watching the cosmosWhen it comes to the entire cosmos, we humans are incredibly small and insignificant. But that's precisely why we need to take ourselves into account when thinking about the Universe. Find out why.