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    19 March, 2024

    Every day here at Plus is a celebration of maths!  And one of our favourite ways to share the joy is to distil some of our favourite ideas from the mathematical sciences to add to our library of Maths in a minute. These easy introductions explain key concepts in just a few words for when you want facts and you want them fast.

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    So as the world joins us today on pi day (14th March, or 3.14 if you write things the American way with the month coming first) to celebrate the beauty of maths, here are just a few of our favourite maths in a minute!

    We’ve published over 150 so far and we’re always adding more - you can find them all here!


    This content is part of our collaboration with the Mathematics for Deep Learning (Maths4DL) research programme, which brings together researchers from the universities of Bath and Cambridge, and University College London. Maths4DL aims to combine theory, modelling, data and computation to unlock the next generation of deep learning. You can see more content produced with Maths4DL here.

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