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Rupa Patel reflects to Plus on her work as a financial engineer

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When we finally meet the Martians, John Conway believes they are going to want to talk mathematics.

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March 2008
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mathematical models

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In the first of a new series 'Imaging Maths', Plus takes an illustrated tour of an extraordinary geometric construction: the Klein bottle.

Tags: Klein bottle : topology : visualisation : projective plane : surface : orientability : one-sided surface : two-sided surface : torus : mathematical models : helicoidal surface : geodesic


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Using sand to create new mathematical models

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Mathematics tackles an eternal question

Tags: mathematical modelling : evolution : mathematical models : origins of life : alien life : astrobiology