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Anne Conway | English philosopher and 17th century influencer

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Marcus du Sautoy: How maths blows my mind – and how it will save us

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Google has created a maths AI that has already proved 1200 theorems

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DeepMind created a maths AI that can add up to 6 but gets 7 wrong

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Mathematicians have found a new way to multiply two numbers together

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Mathematicians have found a new way to multiply two numbers together

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Karen Uhlenbeck is first woman to win prestigious maths Abel prize

Karen Uhlenbeck has won the Abel prize, often called the Nobel prize of mathematics, for work that laid the foundations for major breakthroughs in theoretical physics

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Mathematician cracks centuries-old problem about the number 33

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