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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.
A game you're almost certain to lose...
What are the challenges of communicating from the frontiers of mathematical research, and why should we be doing it?
Maths meets politics as early career mathematicians present their work at the Houses of Parliament.
Celebrate this year's International Women's Day with some of the articles and podcasts we have produced with women mathematicians over the last year!
How to sum an infinite series using chocolate.