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Unjamming Traffic

January 16, 2008

Why traffic jams occur for seemingly no reason

News from the world of maths: The Plus podcast: Interdisciplinary maths, from life on Mars to cancer development

January 15, 2008

How the Universe began

January 10, 2008

Cambridge celebrates 25 years since the first very early Universe workshop

News from the world of maths: The Plus podcast: Stadium maths

December 15, 2007

News from the world of maths: The mathematics of monopoly on More or less

December 12, 2007

Aping around with numbers

December 11, 2007

Chimps beat humans in numeracy test

News from the world of maths: Christopher Zeeman Medal for Maths Communication

December 6, 2007

Changing the face of science

December 4, 2007

Changing your facial appearance with maths

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.
Five of Euler's best

Five favourite problems inspired by Leonhard Euler, one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.
There may be more than one of you

The possibility that there might be many parallel worlds has just become a little more likely.
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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Counting the trees of life

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

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