Maths in a minute
Claude Shannon's ingenious insight linking physical circuits with Boolean algebra paved the way for modern computing.
Opinion polls, election forecasts, testing new medical drugs — none of these would be possible without the central limit theorem.
It would be foolish to ignore evidence. Luckily Bayes' theorem shows us how to take it in into account.
At the heart of modern physics lurks a terrible puzzle: the two main theories that describe the world we live in just won't fit together.
Continued fractions reveal the good, the bad and the beautiful side of numbers.
