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Correlation or causation? Mathematics can finally give us an answer

Correlation or causation? Mathematics can finally give us an answer

22 April 2020

Are shark attacks and ice cream sales linked? Do drugs work? Being able to distinguish cause and effect is crucial. Now we have the maths to do it reliably
We're still untangling Ramanujan's mathematics 100 years after he died

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

22 April 2020

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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