You are probably already thinking about your career choices after you leave university. This is exciting but can also be nerve-wracking, unless you’re one of the few who have planned their career even before arriving at university. Read more!
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Wireless network is great, letting you surf the internet from your sofa without worrying about a tangled mess of cables, but the technology behind Wi-Fi was originally invented for an entirely different purpose. In 1977 an Australian astronomer named John O'Sullivan used a mathematical technique called Fourier transforms to improve his radio telescope, and today […]
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Swimming records have tumbled thanks to futuristic swimsuits designed with mathematical precision.
Fire is a terrifying, destructive force. Studying its complicated dance saves lives and property.
The Sun is just one of around two hundred billion stars orbiting around a super-massive black hole at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. In turn, the Milky Way is just one of around two hundred billion galaxies in the Universe.
Euclid of Alexandria is one of the most influential names in the entire history of mathematics. Although best known for his work on geometry, he also devised a mathematical algorithm for finding the greatest common factor of two numbers.
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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.
Crime is a problem everywhere, and especially in big cities, but why are some areas more at risk than others?
Mathematics is the purest of the sciences, dealing in eternal truths and abstract ideas. As such, most mathematicians prefer to avoid messy, organic details, such as corals, lettuce and household crafts. But welcoming these foreign objects has produced great results in the oldest branch of maths - geometry. Accepted geometry For 22 centuries Euclid (fl. […]
Carson was a lone voice speaking out for statistical scientific studies on pesticides, which helped spark the environmental movement.
As the country's central bank, the Bank of England plays a fundamental role in the UK economy - ensuring monetary stability and contributing to financial stability. Their work has an impact on the entire nation.
EDF Energy is one of the UK's largest energy companies and largest producer of low-carbon electricity. They generate around one fifth of the UK's electricity and employ around 15,000 people in the UK.
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