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Emmy NoetherImage Source: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons Emmy Noether was a prominent German mathematician, most famous for discovering Noether’s theorem – which proved...
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Physicists have proposed a new mathematical model for a time machine. The research, published in Classical and Quantum Gravity, proposes...
Throughout its brief history, mathematics has been closely linked with measurement and money. In the ancient settlements the rules of...
On 23 May 2015, John Forbes Nash tragically died in a taxi accident, just after receiving the most prestigious award...
Discover how mathematics relates to everyday life in What’s Your Angle?, a new festival created by the Science Museum and...
William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) revolutionized algebra with his discovery of quaternions, a non-commutative algebraic system, as well as his earlier...
The maths we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and...
What goes on inside the mind of a mathematician? Where does inspiration come from? Fields Medal winner Cédric Villani will...
