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George Boole and the wonderful world of 0s and 1s
The story of George Boole is an extraordinary example of collaboration across the centuries.
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Maths in a minute: Trisecting the angle
A quick look at an ancient problem.
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What is general relativity?
To celebrate the centenary of the general theory of relativity we asked physicist David Tong to explain the theory and the equation that expresses it. Watch the video or read the article!
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Einstein and relativity: Part I
Read about the rocky road to one of Einstein's greatest achievements: the general theory of relativity, which celebrates its centenary this year.
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Einstein and relativity: Part II
General relativity, Einstein's rise to international stardom, and his legacy.
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The longitude problem
How longitude presented one of the greatest problems in history.
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Latitude by the stars
Why the North Star tells you your latitude.
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Can you measure information?
Can you measure information? It's a tricky question — but people have tried and come up with very interesting ideas.
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Steady on, Einstein
To celebrate the release of more English translations of Einstein's papers, we revisit one of his previously unknown models of the Universe.
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The Sun, the Moon and trigonometry
A little trig helps to find the relative distance to the Sun and Moon.
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Solving quadratics in pictures
How to derive the famous quadratic formula from pictures, just like the Babylonians did.
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Maths in a minute: Euclid's fourth axiom
Euclid's fourth axiom says that all right angles are equal. But isn't that obvious?