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mathematics

logic

Humans

How to think about... Logic

Is the sentence ‘this sentence is false’ true or false? The difficulty our messy brains have answering that goes to the heart of what logic is – and isn’t

Features

Australia scores against Finland on 21 June 2018

Physics

More penalty shoot-outs needed to make future World Cups fairer

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Walter Pitts

Life

How a frog’s eye robbed us of a genius’s AI masterwork

Features

Silhoutted person looking at stars

Space

I'm working on a universal language to let us speak to aliens

Comment

Watch the weird new solutions to the baffling three-body problem

Physics

Watch the weird new solutions to the baffling three-body problem

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The unfashionable genius of William de Morgan

Humans

The unfashionable genius of William de Morgan

Culture

M. C. Escher, Day and Night (1938)

Humans

Escher's Journey: there's more to this artist than his maths

Culture

7 mathematicians you should have heard of – but probably haven't

Mathematics

7 mathematicians you should have heard of – but probably haven't

Features

numbers artwork

Mathematics

Theorem of everything: The secret that links numbers and shapes

Features

A simple mathematical rule shapes the behaviour of Arctic ponds

Earth

A simple mathematical rule shapes the behaviour of Arctic ponds

Understanding Arctic ponds can help us predict how fast the ice is melting. Their formation is governed by the simple maths of drawing overlapping circles

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Physics

Unbreakable: The race to protect our secrets from quantum hacks

Features

Physics

Medieval gamblers turned their back on fate and made dice fair

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Technology

Clever maths will stop hackers spying on the quantum internet

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Physics

Largest prime number ever found has over 23 million digits

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