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News from the world of maths: The BA Festival of Science - day 3

September 11, 2007

Some sporty stats

September 11, 2007

With the rugby world cup in full swing, it's time to look at some numbers

News from the world of maths: BA Festival of Science - days 1 and 2

September 10, 2007

Plasma, bird swarms and the stock market

September 3, 2007

Studies have linked solar wind with bird behaviour and stock market performance

News from the world of maths: The Illusion of Wealth

August 30, 2007

10 years of bringing mathematics to life

August 29, 2007

Plus celebrates its 10th birthday!

News from the world of maths: Listen to the first Plus Podcast!

August 22, 2007

News from the world of maths: Game over for checkers

August 3, 2007

Blood, oil and water

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.
Counting the trees of life

How many possible genetic relationships are there between a collection of different species? The answer is mind-bogglingly large.
What do you think?

Mathematicians explore how opinions spread through a society.
Introducing Andrew Wiles

In these two short videos the legendary Andrew Wiles talks about what it was like to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, and what it feels like to do maths.
Image © Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation / Flemming – 2016
Stuff happens: From finance to fundamental physics

Current physical theories suggest that beautiful symmetries underly the fundamental particles and forces of nature. We describe those symmetries using an analogy from economics, and even rediscover the famous Higgs boson.

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