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advent calendar 2017

Plus Advent Calendar Door #24: Achilles, the hedgehog and the bridges of Konigsberg!

Plus Advent Calendar Door #23: Excitement from the LHC with Ben Allanach

Plus Advent Calendar Door #22: Mathematical moments — Katie Steckles

Plus Advent Calendar Door #21: Mathematical moments with Frank Kelly

Plus Advent Calendar Door #20: Women of mathematics with Nilanjana Datta

Plus Advent Calendar Door #19: Mathematical moments with Nira Chamberlain

Plus Advent Calendar Door #18: Quantum computing and very hard problems with Natalia Berloff

Plus Advent Calendar Door #17: Maths on a boat with June Park

Plus Advent Calendar Door #16: Mathematical moments — Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Plus Advent Calendar Door #15: What is general relativity?

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The ICM 2018

The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) took place in Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of August. Here is all our coverage at a glance.
What is pharmaceutical statistics?

What do statisticians do in the pharmaceutical industry?
Blockchain: Spreading trust

Bitcoin is a digital currency that isn't regulated by any kind of central authority. The structure which allows this decentralisation is called blockchain. But how, and how well, does it work?
Maths in a minute: Transcendental numbers (and politics)

A quick introduction to transcendental numbers, a famous problem which relates to them, and how the person who solved it became a victim of political tensions.
Maths and politics

Mathematicians like to think that their field transcends politics, but as this brief history of the International Congress of Mathematicians shows, international mathematics has always been coloured by world events.

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