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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, sa ...
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Timetables – Hard to Read, Even Harder to Build

When you look at a train or university timetable you don’t think about how the timetable was made – ...
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Mathematicians Crack Elusive Puzzle Involving The Number 42

Can three cubed numbers be added up to give 42? Until now, we didn’t know It might not tell us the m ...
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Explainer: The Point of Pure Mathematics

What is pure mathematics? What do pure mathematicians do? Why is pure mathematics important? These a ...
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Breakthrough In Fiendishly Hard Puzzle Has Mathematicians Partying

Calculating Ramsey numbers is so difficult that one mathematician once said he’d rather fight ...
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Quantum Computers Proved To Have ‘Quantum Advantage’ On Some Tasks

Not only do quantum computers have the edge over classical computers on some tasks, but they are als ...
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Oceanic waves represent fundamental challenges in nonlinear science, say mathematicians

The instability of Stokes waves (steady propagating waves on the surface of an ideal fluid with infi ...
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From English to Math

Let’s lay down some definitions: Let FF be a field and let EE be an extension of FF. An elemen ...
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Pi’s first six in a row

See a vertical stripe, what you are seeing is a run of repeated digits, like 7777, 00000, or 222. On ...
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Drawings of mathematical problems predict their resolution

A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), in collaboration with CY Cergy Paris University (CYU) ...
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Researchers create first large-scale model of human mobility that incorporates ...

For more than half a century, many social scientists and urban geographers interested in modeling th ...
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Flipped coins found not to be as fair as thought

A large team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions across Europe, has found evidence ...
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