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Football matches in top European leagues are becoming more predictable

Computer predictions for the outcome of European football matches over a 26-year period become more accurate in recent years

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What is an algorithm?

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Portrait of the German mathematician Amalie Emmy Noether (1882-1935), c.1910

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Mathematicians who unravelled computational complexity win Abel prize

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Maths reveals the top strategies to win at fantasy football

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Maths reveals the top strategies to win at fantasy football

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Virtual reality game lets you play with hypercubes in four dimensions

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Is the universe conscious? It seems impossible until you do the maths

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Is the universe conscious? It seems impossible until you do the maths

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The mathematician’s guide to dating and finding the perfect partner

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The mathematician’s guide to dating and finding the perfect partner

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Correlation or causation? Mathematics can finally give us an answer

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Correlation or causation? Mathematics can finally give us an answer

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We're still untangling Ramanujan's mathematics 100 years after he died

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We're still untangling Ramanujan's mathematics 100 years after he died

Srinivisa Ramanujan’s ideas seemed to come from a parallel universe and mathematicians are still getting to grips with them today, say Ken Ono and Robert Schneider

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Mathematicians who revealed the power of random walks win Abel prize

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Trippy maths program could help figure out the shape of the universe

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Maths is all around us: how numbers control our everyday lives

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Welcome to Lunarville: Building a permanent settlement on the moon

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