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From satellites to the London Olympics, all in one career

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Discover why the number 6174 is so mysterious.

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September 2008
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Tags: harmonic series : graph : weather


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To arm or to disarm? This is the question in Phil Wilson's article, which explores the maths behind a cold war in slug world.

Tags: graph : graphical methods : cold war : slugs


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In last issue's Graphical methods I Phil Wilson used maths to predict the outcome of a cold war in slug world. In this self-contained article he looks at slug world after the disaster: with only a few survivors and all infra-structure destroyed, which species will take root and how will they develop? Graphs can tell it all.

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A computer program that can learn languages

Tags: graph theory : computer science : graph : language