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News: sleep modelling, fracture simulation, prime numbers, mathematics genealogies, random number generation, and more
Mathematical histories: Peter Rowlett looks at the development
of probability theory, a fi eld that owes its existence to mathematicians such as Cardano, Pascal, Huygens and Bernoulli
Book reviews: Duel at
Dawn by Amir Alexander,
Which explores the
narratives of mathematics;
and Number Freak by
Derrick Niederman, a
compendium of integers
Great mathematicians:
The life of the great Isaac
Newton, whose many
contributions to science
include calculus and
his laws of mechanics
Puzzles: Jigsaw Sudoku, Killer Sudoku, Kakuro, Samurai Sudoku and anagrams
Endnotes: Quotes, website reviews and trivia
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The soliton: A wave less ordinary
Benjamin Skuse describes how a special type of wave called the soliton went from being almost universally ignored to
being both widely studied and highly valued for its practical applications, after its existence was proved mathematically
Cover Story: Models for life
Sarah Shepherd explains why discrete models for biological cells are becoming more and more popular, and shows how
one such model has been applied to the simulation of cancer invasion and the phenomenon of cell sorting