Business & Money

Career profiles

Career profiles

What do mathematicians do all day?

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House prices

Why are news agencies so obsessed with covering house prices?

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Is it ever ‘only a game’?

What are the rules, and what’s the best strategy to win? Game theory has proved useful in many different fields today.

Karl Marx

The foundation of Communism

Billions of people’s lives have been shaped by the theory of Communism he co-created, but it was only published because the censors thought that it was so complicated and technical no one would understand it.

Money

Selling the future

Financial derivatives could make calculus the most valuable thing you ever learn.