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More or Less
A new series of More or Less, BBC Radio 4's series devoted to all things numerical, starts on November 12th. Presenter Andrew Dilnot tells Plus about the motivation behind the programme.
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The golden ratio and aesthetics
It was Euclid who first defined the Golden Ratio, and ever since people have been fascinated by its extraordinary properties. Find out if beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and how the Golden Ratio crosses from mathematics to the arts.
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The best medicine?
To make hard decisions, you need hard facts. Medical statistics can help us to decide what treatment to look for when we are ill, and to estimate our chances of recovery.
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Music to their ears
Can the music of Mozart help your mathematics?
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Nobel mathematics
Mathematics makes a clean sweep in the Nobel Prizes.
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In skimming, spin's the thing
Find out how to beat the world record in stone skimming - you just need to do the maths!
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Prime time
Two computer science students and their professor prove testing for primes is easy - a result that has eluded mathematicians for centuries.
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Putting it in perspective
Mathematics is helping the blind move forward and us all to step inside the past.
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Mathematical mysteries: Transcendental meditation
Nineteenth-century German mathematician Leopold Kronecker once said God created the integers, all the rest is the work of man.
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Beyond reasonable doubt
In 1999 solicitor Sally Clark was found guilty of murdering her two baby sons. Highly flawed statistical arguments may have been crucial in securing her conviction. As her second appeal approaches, Plus looks at the case and finds out how courts deal with statistics.