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What is symplectic geometry?

This beautiful version of geometry was developed to keep track of things that move! Here's a very brief introduction.
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Playing billiards on strange tables

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.
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Dynamic numbers

Holly Krieger has won a Whitehead Prize for work that combines number theory and dynamical systems.
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What is the Mandelbrot set?

This article gives a short but thorough introduction to that fabled beast of mathematics: the Mandelbrot set.
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Smale's chaotic horseshoe

Want to understand chaos? Then have a look at this famous brainchild of the mathematician Stephen Smale.