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Crowdsourced prime number could help solve a 50-year-old problem

A group of maths enthusiasts pooled their computer power to discover a new prime number, edging closer to a solution to the decades-old Sierpinski problem

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Maths says delaying Article 50 could bring better Brexit deal

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Maths says delaying Article 50 could bring better Brexit deal

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Humans

Blind people use brain's visual cortex to help do maths

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Metaphysics special: What is reality made of?

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Humans

We are gods of the future – but what will we do?

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Mathematicians finally starting to understand epic ABC proof

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Mathematicians finally starting to understand epic ABC proof

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The life and work of Alan Turing: Discovery weekend

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How Alan Turing found machine thinking in the human mind

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Emilie du Chatelet

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The bold, brilliant woman who championed Newton's physics

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Physics killed free will and time's flow. We need them back

Modern science has taken a wrong turn – and it's all because real numbers aren't real at all, argues quantum physicist Nicolas Gisin

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Humans

Radical insights from The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom

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Physics

The impossible barber and other bizarre thought experiments

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Mathematics

This Turing machine should run forever unless maths is wrong

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Why so much science research is flawed – and what to do about it

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