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The longitude problem
How longitude presented one of the greatest problems in history.
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Finding your place in the world
What are global coordinates?
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How does your garden grow?
The division of plant cells is governed by their shape – just one example of how maths may reveal the fundamental laws underlying biology.
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Solving quadratics in pictures
How to derive the famous quadratic formula from pictures, just like the Babylonians did.
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Maths in a minute: Euclid's fourth axiom
Euclid's fourth axiom says that all right angles are equal. But isn't that obvious?
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Maths in a minute: Euclid's axioms
Five basic facts from the father of geometry.
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Trisecting an angle with origami
How to solve an ancient problem in a few folds.
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Five Martin Gardner eye-openers involving squares and cubes
This week would have been the 100th birthday of Martin Gardner, who is deservedly credited with turning on several generations of people worldwide to the pleasures of maths! To mark the occasion here are some favourite puzzles that, apart from being fun, also lead to some serious maths.
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Making a right angle the Maya way
The Mayan civilisation brought forth many great things — including this clever way of making a right angle.
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Maryam Mirzakhani: counting curves
Maryam Mirzakhani is being honoured for her "rare combination of superb technical ability, bold ambition, far-reaching vision, and deep curiosity".
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Kissing the curve
Curves bring great beauty to our world. But how curvy is a curve?
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Blink and you'll miss it: The free kick in football (part I)
Free kicks will deliver much of the drama in the football world cup this summer. But how should strikers approach them and how does the design on the ball impact on its behaviour in flight? Maths can give us answers...