Marianne Freiberger

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Manjul Bhargava: revealing numbers

Manjul Bhargava is being honoured as a number theorist of "extraordinary creativity," with "a taste for simple problems of timeless beauty."
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Artur Avila

Artur Avila: taming chaos

Artur Avila is being honoured for "formidable technical power, the ingenuity and tenacity of a master problem-solver, and an unerring sense for deep and significant questions."
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Martin Hairer: at the interface

Martin Hairer's is being honoured for a major breakthrough that gives a way of attacking problems that had previously been impenetrable.
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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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What is information?

Books, brains, computers — information comes in many guises. But what exactly is information?
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Problems of gravity

Why (some) physicists want to modify Einstein's general theory of relativity.
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Play to win with Nim

In the game of Nim one player always has a winning strategy — it depends on an unusual way of adding numbers.
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Maths, metronomes and fireflies

It's one of the most beautiful sights in nature: fireflies illuminating the night with their synchronised flashing. Mathematicians have just solved a 40 year-old problem behind this striking phenomenon.
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The art gallery problem

Sometimes a piece of maths can be so neat and elegant, it makes you want to shout "eureka!" even if you haven't produced it yourself. One of our favourite examples is the art gallery problem.

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