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Counting on connections
Julian Sahasrabudhe wins a Whitehead Prize for combining different areas of maths using the power of combinatorics.
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How to (im)prove mathematics
Find out how a story starting with the simple notion of counting ends in a revolutionary new way of doing maths that uses computers to harness the power of human collaboration!
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Maths on the red carpet - Fields Medallist June Huh
Fields Medallist June Huh tells us about maths you can "feel and touch" and why maths mirrors who we are as a species
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A short introduction to the work of June Huh
Huh may have had relatively late start in mathematics but his work with maths you can feel and touch has won him a Fields medal.
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The Fields Medals 2022: June Huh
June Huh has been awarded a Fields Medal for work on combinatorics and algebraic geometry.
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Maths in a minute: Combinatorics
Whether you want to understand viruses, win at lotto or solve a rubik's cube – you'll need some help from combinatorics.
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Tricky teacups
One of our favourite problems from our sister site NRICH opens a door to the world of combinatorics and symmetry.
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Tricky arrangements
Mathematicians have proved a new result in the field of combinatorics.
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The 36 officers problem
Euler may not have cracked this problem completely, but it led to a lot of important work, including on what we today know as sudoku.
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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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How many melodies are there?
Given there's a finite number of notes on a scale, can we still find a brand new melody? Perhaps they've all been written already!
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Friends and strangers
Can we always find order in systems that are disordered? If so, just how large does a system have to be to contain a certain amount of order?