Mathematics
Are we all related to Henry VIII’s Master of the Mint?
After discovering that a Ralph Rowlett was in charge of the Royal Mint in 1540, Peter Rowlett runs the genealogy calculations to find out if he could be related
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How the history of maths is much more diverse than you think
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GPT-4: Is the AI behind ChatGPT getting worse?
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Humans
Football matches in top European leagues are becoming more predictable
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Physics
Mathematicians who unravelled computational complexity win Abel prize
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Physics
Maths reveals the top strategies to win at fantasy football
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Technology
Virtual reality game lets you play with hypercubes in four dimensions
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Is the universe conscious? It seems impossible until you do the maths
The question of how the brain gives rise to subjective experience is the hardest of all. Mathematicians think they can help, but their first attempts have thrown up some eye-popping conclusions
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Physics
The mathematician鈥檚 guide to dating and finding the perfect partner
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Humans
We’re still untangling Ramanujan’s mathematics 100 years after he died
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Physics
Correlation or causation? Mathematics can finally give us an answer
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Physics
Mathematicians who revealed the power of random walks win Abel prize
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