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Why doing maths is like being Lewis Carroll's Red Queen and how to keep going beyond the formidable age of 84.
Why doing maths is like being Lewis Carroll's Red Queen and how to keep going beyond the formidable age of 84.
Artur Avila is being honoured for "formidable technical power, the ingenuity and tenacity of a master problem-solver, and an unerring sense for deep and
significant questions."
It's one of the most beautiful sights in nature: fireflies illuminating the night with their synchronised flashing. Mathematicians have just solved a 40 year-old problem behind this striking phenomenon.
The paths of billiard balls on a table can be long and complicated. To understand them mathematicians use a beautiful trick, turning tables into surfaces.
If you thought that billiards was a harmless game to play in the pub, think again. It's a breeding ground for chaos!
Fields medallist Cédric Villani talks to us about our solar system, chaos, and what it's like being a mathematical superstar.
The ability to see order in chaos has won the mathematician Yakov G. Sinai the 2014 Abel Prize.
The Abel Prize 2011 goes to John Willard Milnor of Stony Brook University, New York for "pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry and algebra".
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There have been accusations that the modelling projecting the course of the pandemic was too pessimistic. Are they justified?
We all know what turbulence is, but nobody understands it.
Find out about the beautifully intuitive concept that lies at the heart of calculus.
Mathematicians help with clearing the massive NHS backlog for heart conditions.
In some sense, all of maths should come under the label "logic", and in this collection of articles we try to explain why.