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A Beautiful
Mind
Thanks to Sylvia
Nasar's book and the Hollywood movie, John Nash is a household
name. His battle with schizophrenia is now well known, but
what did he do to earn his Nobel Prize? Why was he a
mathematical genius?
Erdos-Bacon
Numbers
You might have heard of 'six degrees of
separation', and you might even have heard of 'six degrees of
Kevin Bacon', but what about 'six degrees of Erdos-Bacon'?
Read about the hottest party game amongst Hollywood
mathematicians.
The Wolfskehl
Prize
The story
of Fermat's Last Theorem culminated in the award of the
Wolfskehl Prize. This is the story of the most famous prize in
mathematics and investigates why a German millionaire
bequeathed his fortune as reward for the proof of Fermat's
Last Theorem.
How To
Stack Oranges
Prof Thomas Hales at the
University of Michigan has cracked a problem that has
been puzzling mathematicians for over 400 years - which is the
best way to stack oranges? This article outlines some of
the debate surrounding Prof Hales' proof and
the controversial role of computers in mathematical
research.
Mathematics
Teaching Crisis
I love
mathematics and science, which is why it pains me that the
number of people studying these subjects at every level is
declining, not just in Britain but also in the rest of
Europe and North America. Why? I suspect that the lack of
teachers is the critical problem. I am passionate above
working towards a solution to this problem, and I have also
written a second article on this
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