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What mathematicians get up toAfter 5,000 years, the game of Nine Men's Morris has succumbed to the power of modern computing, plus other recent mathematical discoveries in the world of games.
Agner Krarup Erlang (1878 - 1929)The mathematics underlying today's complex telephone networks is still based on his work. Erlang was the first person to study the problem of telephone networks.
Call routing in telephone networksFind out how modern telephone networks use mathematics to make it possible for a person to dial a friend in another country just as easily as if they were in the same street, or to read web pages that are on a computer in another continent.
Testing Bernoulli: a simple experimentHere is an experiment that you can easily do yourself to test Bernoulli's equation. There are also 2 questions and answers.
Editorial
  • Allergic to mathematics?
  • The inner beauty of pure mathematics
  • A journey with mathematics
  • Staff room
Puzzle pageCarnivorous beetles hunt down breakfast
Understanding turbulenceHave you ever been in an aeroplane on a smooth flight when suddenly the plane bumps up and down for a short time as it goes through turbulent air? The study of turbulence is used to understand a range of phenomena from the simple squirting of a jet of water to the activity of the sun.
Puzzle pageThe ring is the thing...
Editorial
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