Physics
Kurdish refugee wins the Fields medal – the biggest prize in maths
Caucher Birkar, who fled Iran for the UK, is one of four winners of the Fields medal, often called the Nobel prize of mathematics
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How to think about… Logic
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More penalty shoot-outs needed to make future World Cups fairer
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How a frog鈥檚 eye robbed us of a genius鈥檚 AI masterwork
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I’m working on a universal language to let us speak to aliens
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Watch the weird new solutions to the baffling three-body problem
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The unfashionable genius of William de Morgan
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Escher’s Journey: there’s more to this artist than his maths
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7 mathematicians you should have heard of 鈥� but probably haven’t
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Theorem of everything: The secret that links numbers and shapes
For millennia mathematicians have struggled to unify arithmetic and geometry. Now one young genius could have brought them in sight of the ultimate prize
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A simple mathematical rule shapes the behaviour of Arctic ponds
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Unbreakable: The race to protect our secrets from quantum hacks
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Medieval gamblers turned their back on fate and made dice fair
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Clever maths will stop hackers spying on the quantum internet
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