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László Lovász (left) and Avi Wigderson (right)

Mathematicians who unravelled computational complexity win Abel prize

17 March 2021

László Lovász and Avi Wigderson have jointly been awarded the Abel prize, which is sometimes called the Nobel prize of mathematics, for their “foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics”
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Maths explains how bees can stay airborne with such tiny wings

25 July 2017

The tiny wings on bees shouldn’t be able to lift their big bodies. How they fly has eluded mathematicians since the 1930s, but the mystery is now solved

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