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Special review: The Story of Maths
A review of the recent BBC4 programme on the history of mathematics.
Mathematical greats: The story of George Green, the miller-
Book review: Professor Stewart's Cabinet of
Mathematical Curiosities, by Ian Stewart.
Interview: Keith Briggs, a mathematician in
BT's research department, explains why
mathematics has an important role to play in
the telecommunications industry.
Puzzles: Flower Sudoku, Killer Sudoku,
Nurikabe, Slitherlink, picture poser and
anagrams.
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The shape of time
By Veronique Page
How Einstein's theories of relativity completely altered our view
of space and time.
The unnatural nature of asymptotic approximations
By Phil Trinh
The Devil's divergence: Why mathematicians pay a high price in their attempts to
approximate real-
Cover Story: The limits of computation
By Graeme Taylor
An exploration of Turing machines, undecidability and the P vs. NP problem.