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Knitting by numbers
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2008 Crafoord Prize
One of science's biggest prizes awarded for research into strings and knots
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Möbius at rest
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"Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all."
Leonhard Euler was one of the most prolific mathematicians of all time. This year marks the 300th anniversary of his birth. Robin Wilson starts off a four part series on Euler with a look at his life and work.
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The Fields Medals 2006
The highest honour in maths has been awarded to four mathematicians
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Count-abel even if not solve-abel
The 2004 Abel Prize celebrates one of the great landmarks of 20th century mathematics.
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Imaging maths - Inside the Klein bottle
In the first of a new series 'Imaging Maths', Plus takes an illustrated tour of an extraordinary geometric construction: the Klein bottle.
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In space, do all roads lead to home?
Is the Universe finite, with an edge, or infinite, with no edges? Or is it even stranger: finite but with no edges? It sounds far-fetched but the mathematical theory of topology makes it possible, and nobody yet knows the truth. Janna Levin tells us more.