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Career profiles

What do mathematicians do all day?

Flying through water

Flying through water

Swimming records have tumbled thanks to futuristic swimsuits designed with mathematical precision.

Golfer swing

One, two, three...fore!

What have golfing and grandfather clocks got in common? It's all in the swing...

Bohr brothers

The footballing mathematicians

Studying maths doesn’t stop you from playing world-class football. Harald Bohr was a Danish mathematician who won a silver medal at the 1908 summer Olympics. He also played for the Danish club Akademisk Boldklub alongside his Nobel Prize-winning brother, the physicist Niels Bohr.

Paralympics silver medal

Running the numbers

Is it fair to let an athlete with carbon fibre limbs compete in the Olympics? Sports scientists use statistics to find out.