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Spheres within spheres: A journey through many dimensions
We guide you through an exciting recent breakthrough in the world of topology, involving something called the telescope conjecture.
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Spheres within spheres: Simplicity and failure
We continue our exploration of the telescope conjecture.
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This beautiful version of geometry was developed to keep track of things that move! Here's a very brief introduction.
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A very old problem turns 30!
Andrew Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem solved a centuries-old problem by opening a door onto the future of mathematics.
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A practical guide to writing about anything for anyone!
Some practical tips to help you when you need it most – when you are sitting at the keyboard, ready (or perhaps not so ready) to put your ideas on the page!
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Studying scattered waves
Ice, food, and invisibility cloaks — meet the maths that links them together!
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Revolutionising the power of blood tests using AI
The BloodCounts! project is gearing up towards one of the largest-scale applications yet of machine learning in medicine and healthcare.
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The lungs of the Earth
How can maths help to understand the Southern Ocean, a vital component of the Earth's climate system?
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Playing billiards on strange tables
Weird and wonderful things can happen when you set a ball in motion on a billiard table — and the theory of mathematical billiards has recently seen a breakthrough.
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Learning from COVID: How good was the UK's vaccination strategy?
Was vaccinating vulnerable people first a good choice? Hindsight allows us to assess this question.