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Want facts and want them fast? Our Maths in a minute series explores key mathematical concepts in just a few words.
Generating electricity without the use of fossil fuels is not just an engineering and industrial challenge, it is also a huge mathematical challenge.
In this podcast author Coralie Colmez shares insights into her novel The irrational diary of Clara Valentine.
We talk to early career mathematicians who spent some of their summer holiday solving problems posed by industry — such as how to blend a perfect smoothie!
Don't like plant-based meat alternatives, but want to spare animals and the environment? There's hope on the horizon, aided by a good helping of maths.
Inverse problems are mathematical detective problems. They can help solve crimes, are used in medical imaging, and much more.
This analysis -- like Pascal's -- assumes that "God" is unique and well defined, whether or not existent.
But according to some believers, worship of Brahma is devil-worship, and worse than atheism; and even within Christian belief the dispute as to whether Christ is of the same substance as the Father, or similar substance (homoiusian versus homousian, exactly one iota of difference in the Greek) led some believers to declare others damned. Thus, to win the wager you must select the right Divinity among a very large set of options -- and suffer heavily on Earth from other believers who think you heretical.
The expected pay-off of "I do not believe any such thing" is greater than that of any one particular belief.
Tim Poston