Humans
The Soviet genius who tried to beat capitalism at its own game
The USSR once believed it could catch up with or even overtake the US. If it had listened to one of its brightest mathematical stars, that might have been true
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Humans
Wrong division: How maths can save democracy from gerrymandering
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Humans
The Seduction of Curves revives old ideas about maths and beauty
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Physics
How to beat the bookies by turning their odds against them
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Health
Illuminating India: The genius of making a little go a long way
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Humans
Most science papers turn out to be wrong. It’s time to fix that
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Physics
Riddle of the primes: why do they come in pairs?
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Humans
The brain’s 7D sandcastles could be the key to consciousness
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Technology
Beating the odds: the mathematics of gambling
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Physics
The Renaissance gambler who invented probability to win at cards
Jerome Cardano's gambling obsession spurred him to invent two of the most important theories in maths, laying the foundations of quantum physics
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Physics
Infamous three-body problem has over a thousand new solutions
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Humans
History of zero pushed back 500 years by ancient Indian text
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Physics
Baffling ABC maths proof now has impenetrable 300-page ‘summary’
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Humans
Democracy needs an upgrade to ensure it keeps people on its side
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