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An interview with Akshay Venkatesh

In these two videos Akshay Venkatesh tells us about winning the Fields Medal, what he enjoys about maths, and introduces us to the ideas in his work.
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Easy as ABC?

Mathematicians are working hard to understand an impenetrable proof of the famous ABC conjecture.
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Introducing Andrew Wiles

In these two short videos the legendary Andrew Wiles talks about what it was like to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, and what it feels like to do maths.

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Primes without 7s

James Maynard, one of the prize winners at the European Congress of Mathematics 2016, is counting primes that don't have 7s in them. But why?
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Ramanujan surprises again

A fascinating discovery sheds new light on the work of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.