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The Plus advent calendar 2023

In this year's advent calendar we revisit some of our favourite episodes of our Maths on the move podcast. From the maths of chocolate to the maths of music, there's something here for everyone!

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Climate change: How can maths help?

As COP28, the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, kicks off we look at how maths can help understand the climate crisis.

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Building a theory of quantum gravity

This collection of articles looks at one of the biggest problems in modern physics and at research that aims to solve it.

Podcast

The travelling salesman

How do you create dramatic film out of mathematics? We find out with writer and director Timothy Lanzone.
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e for exponential

At the beginning of an epidemic the number of infected people grows exponentially. But why does the number e appear in descriptions of this growth?

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The doubling time of a disease

The doubling time of a disease is the time it takes for the number of cases of the disease to double. How do you calculate it?
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Disease modelling for beginners

This collection of articles looks at some basic concepts in epidemiology and how mathematics plays a central role in understanding how infectious diseases spread.