Mathematics
How maths can help you pack your shopping more efficiently
How can you ensure you use the fewest bags when loading your shopping? A dash of maths will help, says Peter Rowlett
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Mathematicians make even better never-repeating tile discovery
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Physicist David Wolpert on how to study concepts beyond imagination
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Once Upon a Prime review: The connections between maths and fiction
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Mathematician wins Abel prize for solving equations with geometry
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Breakthrough in fiendishly hard puzzle has mathematicians partying
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Mathematicians discover shape that can tile a wall and never repeat
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Quantum computers may finally have their first real practical use
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Technology
Mathematical trick lets hackers shame people into fixing software bugs
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Why maths, our best tool to describe the universe, may be fallible
Our laws of nature are written in the language of mathematics. But maths itself is only as dependable as the axioms it is built on, and we have to assume those axioms are true
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To make maths classes sizzle, inject some politics and social justice
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Humans beat DeepMind AI in creating algorithm to multiply numbers
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DeepMind AI finds new way to multiply numbers and speed up computers
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The number that is too big for the universe
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