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Our Maths on the Move podcast brings you the latest news from the world of maths, plus interviews and discussions with leading mathematicians and scientists about the maths that is changing our lives. Hosted by Plus editors Rachel Thomas and Marianne Freiberger.

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Find all of our podcasts, from the latest back to the very first in 2007!

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Plus Advent Calendar Door #16: The puzzle of time

Time is a problem, not just for you and me, but also for philosophers. What exactly is time? Why does it have a direction? And was there a beginning of time? Find out more in this podcast.

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Plus advent calendar door #15: Sexual statistics

How many times do we think of it a day? How many times we do it? And with how many people? Find out about the stats of sex with David Spiegelhalter.

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Plus Advent Calendar Door #13: Does infinity exist?

We explore infinity, from shock waves to black holes, and from Aristotle's ideas to Cantor's never-ending tower of infinities.

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Plus advent calendar door #12: How the velodrome found its form

Find out how maths gave the Olympic cycling venue in London its elegant form.

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Plus advent calendar door #11: The story of the Gömböc

It looks like an egg, it wriggles, and it shouldn't really exist: introducing the Gömböc.

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Plus advent calendar door #10: Small worlds on the brain

What do the human brain, the Internet and climate change have in common? They're all hugely complex and can only be understood with maths.

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Plus advent calendar door #9: Does quantum physics really describe reality?

Does it? We talk to some big names in the field to find out.

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Plus Advent Calendar Door #8: What happened before the big bang?

The Universe is an infinitely self-perpetuating foam of bubbles.

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Plus Advent Calendar Door #7: Was maths to blame for the financial crisis?

Can we blame maths for our money troubles? Find out behind door number 7!

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Plus Advent Calendar Door #6: Maths takes flight

Open door number 6 and step inside a mathematical space!

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Plus Advent Calendar Door #5: Catching waves

The Fourier transform is a piece of maths that is, almost single-handedly, responsible for the digital revolution. We asked Chris Budd what the Fourier transform does, and how it does it. This podcast accompanies the Plus article Saving lives: The mathematics of tomography.

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Plus Advent Calendar Door #4: What is a black hole - physically?

We asked cosmologist Pau Figueras everything we’ve ever wanted to know about black holes. In this podcast he explains what black holes are, physically, and how we hope to observe them.

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