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The Fields Medals 2006
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Troubled minds and perfect turbulence
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The right spin: how to fly a broken space craft
On the 25th of May 1997 a dramatic collision tore a hole into the space station Mir and sent it hurtling through space. As NASA astronaut Michael Foale tells Plus, the fate of Mir and its crew hinged on a classical set of equations.
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Relating relativity
Maths finds the structures that underpin written language
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Plus appears on Doctor Who!
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Vaccination works
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Forget Sudoku and smile for the camera
An algorithm for solving Sudoku puzzles from an unexpected source
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John D Barrow wins Templeton Prize
More honours for the director of the Millennium Mathematics Project
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A fat chance of chaos?
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The dangers of cracking hash
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