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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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Rachel Thomas looks at the life and work of pioneering woman mathematician Ada Lovelace, who foresaw computer-generated music and graphics, despite living long before the computer era.

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