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In the UK we need to turn our clocks back this weekend. But there's a lot of different ways of telling the time, many of them relying on the sun. In this article we explore the analemmatic sundial - very different from the garden sundial you might know.
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Our favourite mathematician is no longer on #CelebrityTraitors, but maths can still help the faithful. Traitors is all about updating your assumptions based on new evidence, which is the basis of Bayes Theorem. This summary explains it in just a minute.
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Often when I am working from home, I have a quilt my grandma made on my lap. But looking at it got me thinking about what the best shapes are to make something that tessellates, like a quilt. The hexagon is a classic, but are there ones that don't work?
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ALT Grandmother's garden quilt, made up of hexagons shaped into flowers.
As a child (or an adult) you may have had fun making different sounds on glasses, depending on how much liquid is in them. But turning to more common instruments, what about a drum? Can you work backwards from the sound to find the shape of the drum?
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Applications are open for the next round of Inclusion and Diversity grants, providing financial backing to events championing EDI and grant programmes offering direct support to women and under-represented groups in mathematics.
Deadline: 16 December
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We have started the week feeling very musical so for today's #MathsMinuteMonday we are getting into the links between mathematics and music. But we promise that we won't be singing in any meetings today - for everyone's happiness!
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It's soup season! But as we were waiting for our lunch to cool, we got curious about heat transfer - what is the maths that means that the bowl burns your hands?
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#AI has recently solved some very hard #maths problems. Did it really do that on its own? What does it mean for the future of maths? And how should the maths community respond? We attempt to take stock of a turbulent summer @FacultyMaths
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Continuing our look at AI #proofs: Did AI really solve the Navier-Stokes Millennium Problem? Here's why the answer could be "no": plus.maths.org/navier-stokes… #maths #mathematics #AI
Today we get a new episode of Celebrity Traitors! Obviously we're rooting for mathematician Hannah Fry, but maths could help any of the contestants - they just need game theory. Game theory explains the maths of strategy, including who to trust.
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Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a global celebration of women in STEM! This year we decided to dedicate the day to the brilliant women we met at the International Congress of Mathematicians, including the third woman to win a Fields Medal: Hong Wang.
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ALT Hong Wang
ALT Painting of Ada Lovelace
Recently there's been a lot of discussion in the news about electoral systems and voting - but is there a perfect system? Mathematics suggests not. Today's #MathsMinuteMonday looks at Nobel prize winner Kenneth Arrow's impossibility theorem.
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If you'd like to get more into election maths, we've made a collection of some of our articles building on Arrow's Theorem.
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ALT Dog by a polling station sign
What do butterflies, ketchup, and plastics have in common? Find out in this article about the curious form, the gyroid...
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Happy birthday to Robert P. Langlands! 🥳
He received the Abel Prize in 2018 “for his visionary program connecting representation theory to number theory.”
Today's #MathsMinuteMonday is devoted to an area of pure maths that can feel slightly mind-boggling - but we think we can explain it to you in the time it takes for you to brew your morning coffee.
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It's the end of the first week(s) of term and you may already be feeling behind - and in need of a distraction. Fortunately, we have 100s of articles and podcasts about everything related to maths for a bit of productive procrastination.
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As we move into autumn, lots of us are feeling under the weather - back to school bugs, fresher's flu... In between sneezing, we've been watching these short videos with Julia Gog to understand the maths behind contagion.
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In today's #MathsMinuteMonday, we're looking at networks. Networks are involved in everything from transport to social media to diseases - so how do you manage that complexity mathematically?
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ALT Different coloured balls all connected into a network
Congratulations to Dhruv Ranganathan who has been awarded a Whitehead Prize by @LondMathSoc for his work on algebraic geometry. We chatted to him to learn more about what exactly that involves.
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ALT Dhruv Ranganathan