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Explanimator: Does infinity exist in the real world?
Our latest big ideas animation delves into the concept of infinity and whether it can be applied to physical reality
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The maddeningly magical maths of John Dee
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AI solves 100-hat puzzle used in Google job interviews
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The End of Average tells us why we should discard a mean idea
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Prime number with 22 million digits is the biggest ever found
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Mathematicians invent new way to slice pizza into exotic shapes
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How to get rich with maths
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How to win at game theory
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Painting by numbers with the design book Mathematics and Art
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Feedback: a calling card for water fruitloopery
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Probability is as useful to physics as flat-Earth theory
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Crowds beat computers in answer to Wikipedia-sized maths problem
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Your brain wrinkles like a screwed-up ball of paper
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The greatest physics theorem you’ve never heard of
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