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This year's Abel Prize goes to the "true virtuoso" Dennis Sullivan.
This article gives a short but thorough introduction to that fabled beast of mathematics: the Mandelbrot set.
In this video the mathematician Holly Krieger explains how complex numbers are important in the study of dynamical systems.
Thanks to the tireless effort of students Cambridge now has a piece of the largest distributed fractal in the world.
Our images of the week show the amazing snow art created by Simon Beck.
Mathematicians and psychologists don't cross paths that often and when they do you wouldn't expect it to involve an (apparently) unassuming puzzle like the Tower of Hanoi. Yet, the puzzle holds fascination in both fields.
If you're bored with your holiday snaps, then why not turn them into fractals? A new result by US mathematicians shows that you can turn any reasonable 2D shape into a fractal, and the fractals involved are very special too. They are intimately related to the famous Mandelbrot set.
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Count down to Christmas with maths!
Where do the magnetic fields of planets and stars come from?
In this podcast Paul Shepherd tells us about the maths of football stadiums and why his work required him to listen to Belgian techno.
Amidst all the controversy of the FIFA World Cup 2022 there is also some football to be played. And where there's football, there's maths...
Tosin uses maths to guarantee the continued production of chocolate.