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Telescope topology
This collection of articles explores a recent, exciting breakthrough in the field of topology.
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Spheres within spheres: Simplicity and failure
We continue our exploration of the telescope conjecture.
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Maths in a minute: Homotopy
The concept of homotopy is a great example of how the language of maths can make intuition precise.
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The Chern Medal 2022: Barry Mazur
Barry Mazur has received the 2022 Chern Medal for profound discoveries in topology, arithmetic geometry and number theory.
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Maths in a minute: Topology
When you let go of the notions of distance, area, and angles, all you are left with is holes.
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The mathematical shapes in your brain
Join us as we follow Kathryn Hess on a mathematical mystery tour of the marvellous intricacy of the brain!
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Maths in a Minute: Simplices – the atoms of topology
If you love triangles as much as we do, we have great news – you can have them in any dimension you want!
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The Chern Medal 2018: Masaki Kashiwara
Masaki Kashiwara wins the Chern medal for his "outstanding and foundational
contributions to algebraic analysis and representation theory sustained over a period of
almost 50 years."
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Bach and the musical torus
In a previous article we found a Möbius strip in Bach's music. This time it's a doughnut shape.
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Bach and the musical Möbius strip
Discover (and listen to) the Möbius strip that's hidden within one of Bach's famous canons.
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The shape of things to come: part i
This year's Nobel Prize for Physics brings together the physics of materials with one of our favourite areas of maths – topology.
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Don't judge a black hole by its area
Find out how some black holes are bigger on the inside than they are on the outside.