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News from the world of maths:

April 11, 2008

Country road, take me home

April 11, 2008

Road colouring problem solved

News from the world of maths: I would do anything for maths, but I won't do that

April 10, 2008

News from the world of maths: Attacks on the foundations of calculus

April 10, 2008

News from the world of maths: Climate change and composing computers

April 1, 2008

News from the world of maths: Machine learning and clever 8-year olds

March 31, 2008

News from the world of maths:

March 28, 2008

News from the world of maths:

March 28, 2008

Maths in a minute

Want facts and want them fast? Our Maths in a minute series explores key mathematical concepts in just a few words.

Remembering Maryam Mirzakhani

The brilliant mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani has died, aged just 40.
Stuff Happens: Ordering history in computer science

Our digital lives rely on distributed computer systems, such as the internet, but understanding the order of events in such systems is not always straightforward. Leslie Lamport explains how special relativity helped him order events in computer science, enabling the development of distributed computing.
Going for gold in London

To join in the excitement of the world athletics championships, we bring you some articles, a puzzle, and a little something on infectious diseases.
Outer space: Archimedean ice cream cones

What shape of cone maximises the ice cream to wafer ratio?
Happy birthday to the Isaac Newton Institute!

The Institute is celebrating 25 years of bringing researchers together!

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