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Communication and ball packing
What does packing balls in higher dimensions have to do with getting your message across?
The LHC and the dark matter mystery
What is dark matter and how can the LHC find it?
Police and thieves
Using maths to simulate the behaviour of criminals.
Police and thieves continued
Crimes and earthquakes
How the maths that is used to predict earthquakes can help fight gang crime.
Crooked coin: Solution
Making a biased coin fair.
Elliptic cryptography
How a special kind of curve can keep your data safe.
Crooked coin
Making a biased coin fair.
Maths in a minute: Pretend primes
Fermat's little theorem and fake primes.
From Arsenal to RSA: An interview with Marcus du Sautoy
Marcus du Sautoy talks about football, cryptography, and numbers.
How high is your frustum?
How calculating the height of a frustum gave a glimpse of the mathematical frontier.
Another way of voting
Should we let go of the "one person, one vote" principle?