Rupa Patel reflects to Plus on her work as a financial engineer
When we finally meet the Martians, John Conway believes they are going to want to talk mathematics.
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Great educational thinker dies
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Abstract ideas better than real-world examples for maths learning
(01/05/2008)
Using sand to create new mathematical models
Podcast 8, April 2008: Codes and codebreaking - the Enigma machine
What happens when one black hole meets another? Professor Kip Thorne shows us how to eavesdrop on these cosmic events by watching for telltale gravitational waves.
We take reliable radio communications for granted, but accommodating many different users is not easy. Robert Leese explains how the mathematics of colouring graphs can help avoid interference on your mobile phone.
