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Studying scattered waves
Ice, food, and invisibility cloaks — meet the maths that links them together!
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Podcast
A tour through maths and music
Explore the connections between mathematics and music at the La La Lab exhibition.
Podcast
Plus Advent Calendar Door #5: Catching waves
The Fourier transform is a piece of maths that is, almost single-handedly, responsible for the digital revolution. We asked Chris Budd what the Fourier
transform does, and how it does it. This podcast accompanies the Plus
article Saving lives: The mathematics of tomography.
Article
Cosmic sound
Taking apart the CMB picture using the maths of sound.
News story
Wavelets catch Abel Prize
This year's Abel Prize has been awarded to Yves Meyer for the development of an incredibly powerful mathematical tool.
Article
Maths in a minute: Fourier series
How the heat equation inspired the maths that powers the entertainment industry.
Article
Eat, drink and be merry: making sure it's safe
This article is part of a two-part series exploring ways in which mathematics comes into food, and especially into food safety and health. In this part we'll look at how maths can tell us the safest way to cook food.
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Saving lives: the mathematics of tomography
Not so long ago, if you had a medical complaint, doctors had to open you up to see what it was. These days sophisticated imaging techniques save you the risk and pain of an operation. Chris Budd and Cathryn Mitchell look at the maths that is responsible for these medical techniques, and also for much of the digital revolution.
News story
Abel to iPod
The 2006 Abel prize celebrates the mathematician who helped make mp3s possible.
Article
Radio controlled?
We take reliable radio communications for granted, but accommodating many different users is not easy. Robert Leese explains how the mathematics of colouring graphs can help avoid interference on your mobile phone.