Mathematics
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Can we trust a model that predicts traffic chaos during the Olympics?
27 Jan 2012:Nathan Green: Models can help unravel complexity and predict the future, but they're only as good as their data and the people who built them
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20 Jun 2012:
Codebreaker and mathematician Alan Turing's legacy comes to life in a Science Museum exhibition
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8 Jun 2012:
Tim Radford: The astronomer royal addresses the cosmic coincidence that six numbers in physics are just right for the emergence of galaxies, stars, chemistry and people
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28 May 2012:
If you want to annoy a mathematician without investing much energy doing so, there's one question you can ask that will provide you with at least an hour of entertainment value: How big is a billion?
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21 May 2012:
This morning, we learn how to count like the ancient Babylonians (oh, and we learn about the number 60, too)!
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18 May 2012:
This week I tell you about "The Universe in Zero Words"
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14 May 2012:
Modern authors are stylistically influenced by their contemporaries rather than writers from the 18th and 19th centuries, according to word-frequency study of classic literature
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14 May 2012:
What happens when a numberphile plays with prime numbers?
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9 May 2012:
Can folding a piece of paper 45 times get you to the moon?
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7 May 2012:
Just by looking at the number title of this video, where do you suppose Brady was these past few weeks?
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6 May 2012: Quantum computers are ever closer to becoming a reality, and when they arrive they will revolutionise computing power, writes Jeff Forshaw
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6 May 2012: Julian Assange and a 19th-century French mathematician collide to surprisingly good effect in an imaginative Greyscale theatre company production, writes Kate Kellaway
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23 Apr 2012:
Other lives: Maths lecturer and writer praised for his 'exquisitely straightforward' style
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23 Apr 2012:
GrrlScientist: 666 (and sometimes 616) is the notorious Number of the Beast... what's all that about? And what has roulette got to do with it!?
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12 Apr 2012:
Jonathan Farley: John Derbyshire pointed out that no black mathematician had ever won the Fields medal. There are a few reasons for that
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9 Apr 2012:
Alok Jha reports on how a Cambridge mathematician's protest has led to demands for open access to scientific knowledge
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