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- Plus looks different! - Redesigning the website
- Beauty is truth, truth beauty - The aesthetics of mathematics
- Readers' corner - Rolling with money revisited: The Pyramid Puzzle
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Could maths have caught Shipman?
Harold Shipman could have been detected earlier by monitoring the death rates of his patients.
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Open wide...
Mathematics shows that open source software beats closed source software in the race to fix bugs.
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Dancing with Einstein
The Institute of Physics and Rambert Dance Company are planning to celebrate the theories of Einstein through dance.
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Mission to Mars
The geometry says that now is the right time for a mission to Mars.
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Is now a good time?
Mathematics is helping machines decide when is the best time to interrupt us with a call or email.
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Mind the gap
Can Dan Goldston and Cem Yalcin Yildrim repair the hole in their proof to make the biggest breakthrough in prime number theory for 80 years?
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Understanding influenza
Researchers have used mathematical modelling to understand the evolution of the influenza virus.
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Mathematical millionaire?
The mathematics of Grigori Perelman may earn him a million dollars, if no holes are found in his proof of the Poincaré Conjecture.
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Model behaviour
To study a system, mathematicians begin by identifying its most crucial elements, and try to describe them in simple mathematical terms. As Phil Wilson tells us, this simplification is the essence of mathematical modelling.
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- Optional maths - should students be able to give up maths at age 14?
- Outer space - In what will now be a regular feature, mathematician and cosmologist John D. Barrow shares some maths that's amused and intrigued him.
- Readers' corner- More Strange activities for last issue's Ship of Fools!