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    Maths in a minute: Measure

    Learn how lengths, areas, and volumes generalise to the concept of measure, and how this relates to integration and probability.

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    The EMS Prizes 2024: Frederick Manners

    Frederick Manners  has won a prestigious EMS Prize at the European Congress of Mathematics 2024 for, among other things, a problem involving pyjamas.

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    The EMS Prizes 2024: Tom Hutchcroft

    Tom Hutchcroft has won a prestigious EMS Prize at the European Congress of Mathematics 2024, for work on mathematical models that can help us figure out phase transitions.

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    The EMS Prizes 2024: Richard Montgomery

    Richard Montgomery has won a prestigious EMS Prize at the European Congress of Mathematics 2024 for work on objects so ubiquitous in everyday life it's easy to forget they're mathematical: networks.

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    Moduli spaces: Introducing Riemann surfaces

    How many different surfaces are there? The question seems impossible to answer, but mathematicians have a way of dealing with the multitude. Follow us on a journey into the world of moduli spaces.

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    Beating bird flu with maths

    With bird flu spreading through cattle herds in the US and infecting humans, the diseases poses a severe threat to wild life, poultry and also people. What can mathematical modelling do to help?

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    Maths in a Minute: Group actions

    What exactly do we mean when we say group theory is the study of symmetry? Group actions make precise what it means for a group to act by symmetries on an object.

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    Many of the mathematicians who gathered to celebrate the mathematics, and the 60th birthday, of Timothy Gowers.

    How to (im)prove mathematics

    Find out how a story starting with the simple notion of counting ends in a revolutionary new way of doing maths that uses computers to harness the power of human collaboration!