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Mathematician Caucher Birkar

Physics

Kurdish refugee wins the Fields medal - the biggest prize in maths

Caucher Birkar, who fled Iran for the UK, is one of four winners of the Fields medal, often called the Nobel prize of mathematics

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logic

Humans

How to think about... Logic

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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

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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

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numbers artwork

Mathematics

Theorem of everything: The secret that links numbers and shapes

For millennia mathematicians have struggled to unify arithmetic and geometry. Now one young genius could have brought them in sight of the ultimate prize

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Earth

A simple mathematical rule shapes the behaviour of Arctic ponds

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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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