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Taming big data

A new institute on the maths of information has just been launched at the Faculty of Mathematics in Cambridge.
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Election maths

The US election circus is in full swing. Here's a dose of election maths to help you through.
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ABC building blocks

Easy as ABC?

Mathematicians are working hard to understand an impenetrable proof of the famous ABC conjecture.
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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.

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Political tides

Politician Douglas Carswell has been arguing with scientists about what causes the tides. We've figured out who's right.