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Artificial intelligence and deep learning: Your questions answered
Find out about this important new technology and be part of the conversation.
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To know how it works, see how it moves
The mathematics of movement can describe the behaviour of all types of organisms, from cancer cells to humans.
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Contagious maths
How does maths help in tackling infectious diseases? Join Julia Gog to find out in this series of videos and articles, and have a go at modelling diseases yourself!
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Climate change: How can maths help?
As COP28, the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, kicks off we look at how maths can help understand the climate crisis.
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Meat free meat with maths
Don't like plant-based meat alternatives, but want to spare animals and the environment? There's hope on the horizon, aided by a good helping of maths.
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Spheres within spheres: A journey through many dimensions
We guide you through an exciting recent breakthrough in the world of topology, involving something called the telescope conjecture. (Figure on the left by Niles Johnson.) -
A very old problem turns 30!
Andrew Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem solved a centuries-old problem by opening a door onto the future of mathematics.
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The lungs of the Earth
How can maths help to understand the Southern Ocean, a vital component of the Earth's climate system?
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Can artificial intelligence help predict the weather?
Predicting the weather requires a lot of physics, a lot of maths, and a whole lot of data. But with more data and computing power becoming available, artificial intelligence may be able to help.
Are you curious about maths and the world? Then explore plus.maths.org to stay connected with mathematics: from the maths of everyday life to the latest current research!
- Differential privacy: Keeping your data safe
Marianne 7 June, 2024
The age of Big Data poses a risk to our privacy as even anonymised data can sometimes be linked to individuals. Differential privacy provides a way of protecting sensitive information even when some of it is made public.
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Maths in a minute: Stochastic gradient descent
How does artificial intelligence manage to produce reliable outputs? Stochastic gradient descent has the answer!
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Generative AI: Examples of the future?
Here's a tour of some of the interesting things generative AI has achieved recently — from Hollywood to advertising!
- String theory: A promise from physics
Rachel 7 May, 2024
Mathematics is an indispensable tool in physics, but can physics solve problem in maths? Find out more in this article.
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Happy Women in Maths Day!
We celebrate Women in Mathematics Day with a look at three amazing women from the history of mathematics.
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Heads, Bayes wins!
If you've flipped heads 10 times what's the next flip most likely to be? Bayes' theorem has the answer, not just for the coin, but for the pursuit of science generally.
- Tying together black holes, quantum gravity and number theory
Rachel 7 May, 2024
"The 20th century was the interaction of geometry and physics, and the 21st century is the interaction of number theory with physics." Find out why in our conversation with Yang-Hui He!
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Measles cases on the rise: Why this is worrying and what we can do
We look at the recent rise in measles cases, why it has led to a national health incident being declared, and what can be done to avert the threat.