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Building trust in statistics
The UK Statistics Authority fulfills its duty to keep the government honest
Content about “ public understanding of mathematics
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- Support Plus — make a difference to mathematics
- Common sense
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It's all cricket's fault
Australian cricket to blame for oil price rise?
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- The league table lottery
- Plus and presidents
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Understanding uncertainty
What's the risk of passive smoking? Or climate change? How big is the terrorist threat? And should we trust league tables? These issues concern all of us, but it's not always easy to make sense of the barrage of media information. David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk, gives Plus his take on uncertainty.
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Maths goes public
Plus celebrates its tenth birthday this year. Former editor and present executive editor of Plus, Robert Hunt, explores how maths popularisation in general, and Plus in particular, have changed over the last ten years.
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- What motivates mathematics?
- Win glory and more as a Plus author!
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Where is the next generation? — more bad news for maths education.
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Einstein as icon
One hundred years ago, in 1905, Albert Einstein changed physics forever with his special theory of relativity. Since then his name — and hair do — have become synonymous with genius. John D Barrow looks at Einstein as a media star.
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Editorial, mathematics education, mathematics in the media, public understanding of mathematics, adrian smith
- Where is the next generation? - more bad news for maths education.
- Can Plus cure crazy scientists? - the science stereotype persists.
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- Editorial trends - According to current trends, this editorial will never get written!
- I've got your number - Soon the maths-phobic will have nowhere left to hide.
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101 uses of a quadratic equation: Part II
In issue 29 of Plus, we heard how a simple mathematical equation became the subject of a debate in the UK parliament. Chris Budd and Chris Sangwin continue the story of the mighty quadratic equation.