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Maths
Cube Puzzle winners and solution
The Cube Puzzle was a challenge brought to the Big Bang London courtesy of the MathsCareers Team.
A colourful problem
How many colours do you need to fill in a map? The answer is more complicated than you'd think...
Divine inspiration
A self-taught genius from India and one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century. He believed mathematical ideas were visions from God, giving him a unique style of maths that helped solve problems Western mathematicians couldn’t.
A mathematical legacy
Pythagoras was an ancient Greek philosopher who discovered the mathematical structure behind music during the 6th century BC. He was one of the first people to study the properties of numbers, and the relationships between them. As well as recognising the maths of music, he came up the famous theorem for the sides of a right-angled triangle: a² + b² = c².
