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The paper galaxy 16 Aug 2013 | 09:57 pm
The arXiv is an electronic repository containing scientific papers, both published and as pre-prints, in the areas of physics, mathematics, computer science, mathematical biology, quantitative finance...
Origami by numbers in London 9 Aug 2013 | 07:22 pm
A Kawasaki new rose. Image: Gila Oren. read more
The lost mathematicians: Numbers in the (not so) dark ages 8 Aug 2013 | 04:30 pm
Charlotte Mulcare A commonly held belief about early medieval Europe is that academic pursuits, particularly those appertaining to mathematics and science, had fallen into a dark age. The majority of...
Bluffing and exploitation: An introduction to poker maths 8 Aug 2013 | 02:10 pm
John Billingham Is poker a game of psychology and cunning rather than strategy? We investigate the maths of bluffing. If you've never played poker, you probably think that it's a game for degenerate...
Biodiversity on the brink 6 Aug 2013 | 02:18 pm
A team of Australian researchers has delivered dire news for polar ecosystems, predicting that in some regions biodiversity may be reduced by as much as a third within decades. It's the result of a ti...
Maths at the British Science Festival 1 Aug 2013 | 03:52 pm
This year's British Science Festival will take place from 7 - 12 September at the University of Newcastle and there's plenty of (mostly free) maths on offer. read more
The problem with infinity 22 Jul 2013 | 12:57 pm
Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas This is the second article in our four-part series exploring quantum electrodynamics. After successfully applying quantum mechanics to the electromagnetic field,...
Let me take you down, cos we're going to ... quantum fields 22 Jul 2013 | 12:42 pm
Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas You may have heard of quantum theory before and you probably know what a field is. But what is quantum field theory? This four-part article traces the developmen...
Taming QED 22 Jul 2013 | 12:06 pm
Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas This is the third article in our four-part series exploring quantum electrodynamics. After struggling with a theory plagued by unwieldy infinities an ingenious t...
Quantum pictures 22 Jul 2013 | 12:05 pm
Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas This is the last article in a four-part series exploring quantum electrodynamics. After a breakthrough that tamed QED in theory, the stick-like drawings known as...
