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Astronomical time can help us put lockdown into perspective

Astronomical time can help us put lockdown into perspective

22 April 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is making life feel slower than ever, but observing timescales across the universe can bring us some comfort, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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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