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Contagious maths, Part 5: Meet the researchers!

In this final part, you can meet the researchers themselves and find out about the real research questions that Julia and some of her colleagues are working on!
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AI be the judge: The use of algorithms in the criminal justice system

Could AI help judges deliver fair and transparent sentences? A recent study group involving law experts and mathematicians explored the challenges involved.
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AI be the judge: Part II

We continue our exploration of the potential use of AI in sentencing.
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Maths in a minute: The SIR model

Find out the basics of the SIR model, the basis most disease modellers use to understand the spread of a disease through a population.
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Maths in a minute: R – the reproduction ratio

The reproduction ratio, R, is one of the most important numbers in epidemiology. Find out what it means in this very easy introduction.
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Maths in half a minute: Exponential growth

What do we mean when we say that something grows exponentially? Find out in this very easy introduction, suitable for anyone curious to know more!
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A tip of the hat: Celebrating an aperiodic monotile

Here's a look at the shape that can tile the plane in a non-repetitive pattern — and some of the creative uses people have found for it.
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Maths in a minute: Odds ratios

Is your new face cream associated to getting spots? The odds ratio can help figure it out.
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Maths in a minute: Gödel's incompleteness theorems

Find out about these important results that destroyed a mathematical dream.
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The holographic principle

Over the last few decades physicists have been developing a curious idea. Perhaps the world we inhabit is a hologram, lacking a crucial feature of the world as we perceive it: the third dimension.
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Maths in a minute: Mathematical models

A basic introduction to the most powerful tools in science and engineering.
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e for exponential

At the beginning of an epidemic the number of infected people grows exponentially. But why does the number e appear in descriptions of this growth?