Maths in a minute

Maths in a minute: Continued fractions

Continued fractions reveal the good, the bad and the beautiful side of numbers.

Maths in a minute: Easy 11

Eleven makes multiplication easy.

Maths in a minute: Trisecting the angle

A quick look at an ancient problem.

Maths in a minute: Tiling troubles

Why there are only three regular polygons you can tile a wall with.

Maths in a minute: Pretend primes

Fermat's little theorem and fake primes.

Maths in a minute: The Navier-Stokes equations

The mathematical problem with turbulence.

Maths in a minute: Local connectivity

How crinkly is crinkly?

Maths in a minute: Modular arithmetic

Count around the clock.

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Maths in three minutes: Groups

Capturing symmetry with algebra.

Maths in a minute: What's average?

Why the humble average can be grossly misleading.

Maths in a minute: Writing infinite sums

How to write a sum that's infinitely long.

Maths in a minute: Euclid's fourth axiom

Euclid's fourth axiom says that all right angles are equal. But isn't that obvious?

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