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Originally a way of solving complicated equations with moving variables, the modern definition of an algorithm is morphing
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Why maths should move on from the ancient Greeks
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How an upgrade on calculus is taking maths into uncharted territory
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Babylonians calculated with triangles centuries before Pythagoras
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An AI has disproved five mathematical conjectures with no human help
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Mathematicians who unravelled computational complexity win Abel prize
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Mathematician makes breakthrough on 100-year-old problem about knots
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Mathematicians have found the shortest route to visit 2 million stars
The travelling salesman problem – finding the shortest route between many locations – is notoriously tough, but it has now been solved for a map of over 2 million stars
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The fuzzy law that could break the idea of a mathematical universe
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Lisa Piccirillo: How I cracked a 50-year-old maths problem in a week
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The mathematician’s guide to dating and finding the perfect partner
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We’re still untangling Ramanujan’s mathematics 100 years after he died
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