Mathematics

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• New mathematics gallery at the Science Museum – in pictures

  10 Sep 2014: Images from Zaha Hadid Architects explain its design for the Science Museum’s £5m maths gallery, which is due to open in 2016
  

• Science Museum unveils £5m plan for 'world's foremost' mathematics gallery

  10 Sep 2014: Centrepiece of gallery will be experimental plane designed using advances in maths of aerodynamics and material stress

• Crazy paving: the twisted world of parquet deformations

  9 Sep 2014: Craig Kaplan is master of the geometrical technique in which tiles are constantly changing shape
  

• When fridges attack: the new ethics of the Internet of Things

  8 Sep 2014: The presidential lecture of the Mathematical Sciences Section of the British Science Association, given by Peter McOwan at the 2014 British Science Festival
  

• Why the calls of the wild may be more complex than zoologists first thought

  30 Aug 2014: Mathematical models offer new insights into animal vocal sequences, but evolution of language remains a mystery

• Surprise! Mathematical model reveals unexpected findings on happiness

  16 Aug 2014: According to a new study, experiencing joy when you least expect it is the greatest boost to wellbeing

• A woman finally wins the Fields Medal after 50 years. Why did it take so long?

  13 Aug 2014: Sam Howison: Almost half of maths undergraduates are now women, but winning recognition at the very top of the profession has been a battle

• Fields Medals 2014: prizes for maths work that few of us can grasp

  13 Aug 2014: Don't worry if you don't understand the work of this year's winners. Nor do most of their university colleagues

• Fields Medals 2014: the maths of Avila, Bhargava, Hairer and Mirzakhani explained

  13 Aug 2014: All you need to know about the 2014 Fields Medal winners

• Maryam Mirzakhani: 'The more I spent time on maths, the more excited I got'

  13 Aug 2014:

  The first woman to win the prestigious Fields Medal prize discusses her life as a mathematician

• Fields Medal mathematics prize won by woman for first time in its history

  13 Aug 2014:

  Maryam Mirzakhani, who was born and raised in Iran, has been awarded the highest honour a mathematician can attain

• Do the maths on education choices

  12 Aug 2014: Letters: Companies love to talk about a skills deficit, but schools need to be given the opportunity to train the mind, to encourage individual initiative, to facilitate problem-solving skills, even good manners

• Eight Twitterbots worth following

  12 Aug 2014: Alex Hern: Many of Twitter’s users are bots, which tweet automatically without human input. Here are eight you should be following

• Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw obituary

  12 Aug 2014:

  Brilliant mathematician with a special interest in magic squares, she served as an educational adviser to Thatcher in the 1980s

• Move over Barbie: the cool kids are playing with Lego paleontologists

  9 Aug 2014:

  Zoe Williams: This week, Lego unveiled its first range of female scientists. The set sold out in three days. But is this really the end of the tyranny of pink, when little girls can pretend to be paleontologists instead of princesses?

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