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This year's Abel Prize goes to the "true virtuoso" Dennis Sullivan.
If you ignore exponentially small terms they can come back to bite you.
How a question about rainbows led to an entire field of mathematics.
How to take the square root of a complex number — and discover a beautiful new surface in the process.
There are a million things in maths named after Leonard Euler. Here's a beautiful formula involving complex numbers.
Have you ever wondered what complex numbers are good for, both within and outside of maths? Find out with this collection of articles and videos.
How Heron of Alexandria missed his chance to explore the unknown mathematical land of complex numbers.
This article gives a short but thorough introduction to that fabled beast of mathematics: the Mandelbrot set.
In this video the structural engineer Ahmer Wadee explains how complex numbers can keep buildings from collapsing.
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Want facts and want them fast? Our Maths in a minute series explores key mathematical concepts in just a few words.
Generating electricity without the use of fossil fuels is not just an engineering and industrial challenge, it is also a huge mathematical challenge.
In this podcast author Coralie Colmez shares insights into her novel The irrational diary of Clara Valentine.
We talk to early career mathematicians who spent some of their summer holiday solving problems posed by industry — such as how to blend a perfect smoothie!
Don't like plant-based meat alternatives, but want to spare animals and the environment? There's hope on the horizon, aided by a good helping of maths.
Inverse problems are mathematical detective problems. They can help solve crimes, are used in medical imaging, and much more.