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Even simple rules can lead to interesting processes. Play with Conway's famous cellular automaton to see life-like patterns unfold.
Join us for a game of mathematical billiards in this episode of Maths on the Move.
This beautiful version of geometry was developed to keep track of things that move! Here's a very brief introduction.
Weird and wonderful things can happen when you set a ball in motion on a billiard table — and the theory of mathematical billiards has recently seen a breakthrough.
This year's Abel Prize goes to the "true virtuoso" Dennis Sullivan.
Holly Krieger has won a Whitehead Prize for work that combines number theory and dynamical systems.
This article gives a short but thorough introduction to that fabled beast of mathematics: the Mandelbrot set.
Want to understand chaos? Then have a look at Smale's famous horseshoe map.
Want to understand chaos? Then have a look at this famous brainchild of the mathematician Stephen Smale.