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From satellites to the London Olympics, all in one career
(10/10/2008)
The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded.
(06/10/2008)
Who is to blame for the current financial crisis?
(26/09/2008)
And three cheers for the maths behind its success!
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Issue 48 of Plus
How long will you live? How should you write down numbers? Who's your ideal partner? How good is our voting system? And what is a differential equation? These are difficult and momentous questions. This issue of Plus has some answers, along with a tour of digital art and the usual range of podcasts, news and reviews.
Universal pictures
Peter Markowich is a mathematician who likes to take pictures. At first his two interests seemed completely separate to him, but then he realised that behind every picture there is a mathematical story to tell. Plus went to see him to find out more, and ended up with a pictorial introduction to partial differential equations.
