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Plus Advent Calendar Door #3: Celebrating milestones
The end of the year (as well as a Plus birthday) put us in the mood to reflect on mathematical milestones. Celebrate with us behind door number 3...
Plus Advent Calendar Door #2: Symmetry

Plus Advent Calendar Door #1: Ice Ice Baby
Chaos in Numberland: the secret life of continued fractions
Science in Schools - Advent Calendar with a difference
Tell the world about maths with the FMSP-Rolls-Royce poster competition!
The Further Mathematics Support Programme (FMSP) and Rolls–Royce plc are pleased to invite entries for the third national poster competition for undergraduate or PGCE mathematics students.

Maths in a minute: Geodesic domes
Happy Eulerian day!

School students deliver cutting edge research
A group of school students-turned-researchers has delivered new data that will help scientists stem the spread of infectious diseases. A study designed by the students reveals social contact patterns among primary schools students. This type of information is crucial in mathematical models of how diseases spread, which can be used to test the effects of interventions like vaccination and school closures. The study was based on specially designed questionnaires which were handed out to primary schools and achieved an unprecedented response rate of nearly 90%.

Flying home with quantum physics
Quantum mechanics is usually associated with weird and counterintuitve phenomena we can't observe in real life. But it turns out that quantum processes can occur in living organisms, too, and with very concrete consequences. Some species of birds use quantum mechanics to navigate. And as Plus found out at a recent conference, studying these little creatures' quantum compass may help us achieve the holy grail of computer science: building a quantum computer.