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Happy International women's day 2023!

Celebrate this year's International Women's Day with some of the articles and podcasts we have produced with women mathematicians over the last year!
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New designs from Africa

Paulus Gerdes takes us on a tour of the mathematical properties of some beautiful designs inspired by the traditional art of Angolan tribespeople.
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Happy Women in Maths Day 2025!

To celebrate today we revisit interviews with four women mathematicians who are not only brilliant at doing the maths, but also at communicating it to wider audiences.
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ART+MATH=X

Carla Farsi is both an artist and a mathematician, who declared 2005 her Special Year for art and maths. Find out what she got up to, and what it's like being a part of both worlds.
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Kissing the frog: A mathematician's guide to mating

What's your strategy for love? Hold out for The One, or try and avoid the bad ones? How long should you wait before cutting your losses and settling down with whoever comes along next? John Billingham investigates and saves the national grid in the process.
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Sex, evolution and parasitic wasps

Some things are so familiar to us that they are simply expected, and we may forget to wonder why they should be that way in the first place. Sex ratios are a good example of this: the number of men and women in the world is roughly equal, but why should this be the case? A simple mathematical…
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Happy International Women's Day 2024!

To celebrate this year's International Women's Day we revisit some of the articles, podcasts and videos we have produced with women mathematicians over the last year.

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Happy Ada Lovelace Day 2025!

We celebrate by revisiting some of the articles and podcasts we produced with women mathematicians over the last year.

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Plus 100 —the best maths of the last century More maths grads
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Florence Nightingale: The compassionate statistician

Florence Nightingale died a hundred years ago, in August 1910. She survives in our imaginations as an inspired nurse, who cared passionately for injured and dying soldiers during the Crimean war, and then radically reformed professional nursing as a result of the horrors she witnessed. But the "lady…