List by Author: Marianne Freiberger

Primes without 7s
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James Maynard, one of the prize winners at the European Congress of Mathematics 2016, is counting primes that don't have 7s in them. But why?
What do you think?
Mathematicians explore how opinions spread through a society.
Blood, oil and water
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Sara Zahedi has won a prestigious prize at the European Congress of Maths. Your future medical diagnoses, and even the welfare of sea life, may depend on her work.
Citizen scientists count sunflower spirals
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Does the famous Fibonacci sequence always appear in sunflower seed heads?
A ridiculously short introduction to some very basic quantum mechanics
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Some general ideas in very few words and without equations.
Why quantum mechanics?
Why did physicists at the beginning of the 20th century feel they needed a new — and strange — theory?
Snakes and adders
How can an electronic device fed on a diet of 0s and 1s perform complex tasks? We explore the workings of computers using an example.
Stop taking the p
Number design
Why a time-honoured statistical tool is becoming problematic.
Andrew Wiles wins Abel Prize!
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One of the greatest honours in maths has been awarded for the proof of Fermat's last theorem.
Chaos from order
How simples rules can result in very complex outcomes.
Order behind chaos
We all know what symmetry is. But why does it play such a central role in modern physics?
Symmetry making and symmetry breaking
A closer look at the power of symmetry in physics.