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Occam’s razor

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Occam’s razor

A guiding principle of logic exhorting us to keep things as simple as possible.

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Single mathematical model governs primate brain shape across species

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Mathematics

These 7 mathematical facts will blow your mind

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Why science relies too much on mathematics

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Technology

DeepMind AI solves hard geometry problems from mathematics olympiad

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What the mathematics of knots reveals about the shape of the universe

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What the mathematics of knots reveals about the shape of the universe

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The mathematically perfect table size for solving any jigsaw puzzle

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Decades-old mathematical mystery about the Game of Life finally solved

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Decades-old mathematical mystery about the Game of Life finally solved

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How spiral search patterns and lateral thinking cracked our puzzle

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Two beguiling books show how mathematics is revolutionising our lives

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Two beguiling books show how mathematics is revolutionising our lives

Enjoy Piero Martin’s The Seven Measures of the World, stories about measurement, and explore Four Ways of Thinking by David Sumpter, as he argues that maths can improve our lives

Culture

Mathematics

AI is helping mathematicians build a periodic table of shapes

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Life

Alan Turing mathematically predicted the colour of lizard scales

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The easy trick to evenly cut a pizza into 5, 7 or any number of slices

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Thousands of people apparently cheat at Wordle every day

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