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Helge Holden

The Abel Prize 2025

We talk to Helge Holden, Chair of the Abel Prize Committee, about this year's winner, the prize itself, and the mathematician whose name it carries.

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Masaki Kashiwara

The Abel Prize 2025: Masaki Kashiwara

The Abel Prize 2025 has been awarded to Masaki Kashiwara for contributions to algebraic analysis and representation theory. Find out what this means with our article!

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Jessica Fintzen

Euromaths: Jessica Fintzen

In this episode mathematician Jessica Fintzen, winner of a prestigious EMS Prize, tells us how to capture infinitely many snowflakes at the same time, the maths of symmetry, and why she likes doing handstands.

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Street signs

Maths in a minute: Cayley graphs

Trying to solve a Rubik's cube? A Cayley graph gives you a road map for doing this — and is similarly useful for dealing with any other type of mathematical group!

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Groups today: a whistle-stop tour

Groups have become a core part of the language of modern mathematics and theoretical physics. On this page, find out how groups can help describe roots of polynomials, holes on a surface, and even the laws of physics!

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Groups: The basics

Group theory is the mathematics of symmetry and structure. On this page, find out what a group is and how to think about them.

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Spinning Top

Maths in a Minute: Group actions

What exactly do we mean when we say group theory is the study of symmetry? Group actions make precise what it means for a group to act by symmetries on an object.