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Julian Sahasrabudhe

Counting on connections

Julian Sahasrabudhe wins a Whitehead Prize for combining different areas of maths using the power of combinatorics.

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Many of the mathematicians who gathered to celebrate the mathematics, and the 60th birthday, of Timothy Gowers.

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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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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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?
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tennis balls

Mixing doubles

Andy Murray and Laura Robson made a good team at London 2012, bringing home silver in the mixed doubles. But how do you make sure that the competing pair is the best you can pick from the team?

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