Plus new writers award 2008

Maths on a plane
Phil Trinh discovers how maths helps solve the mysteries of flight and love.
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If we all go for the blonde
José-Manuel Rey revisits a scene of the film A beautiful Mind.
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Fermat's last theorem and Andrew Wiles
Neil Pieprzak tells the fascinating story of Andrew Wiles who, with intense devotion and in secret, proved a deceptively simple-looking conjecture that had defeated mathematicians for almost 400 years.
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Number crunching ants
Liz Newton finds that having a small brain doesn't stop you doing great things.
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A glimpse of Cantor's paradise
Peter Macgregor explores the beautiful world of the infinite.
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Alan Turing: ahead of his time
Alan Turing is the father of computer science and contributed significantly to the WW2 effort, but his life came to a tragic end. Stefan Kopieczek explores his story.
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The amazing librarian
Josefina Alvarez describes the workings of the most famous search engine of them all. You'll need some linear algebra for this one, but it's worth the while!
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