Sophie Germain
18 June 2019
Mathematician who was the first woman to win a prize from France
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Anne Conway
18 June 2019
Anne Conway | English philosopher and 17th century influencer
Occam’s razor
15 May 2019
A guiding principle of logic exhorting us to keep things as simple as possible.
DeepMind created a maths AI that can add up to 6 but gets 7 wrong
4 April 2019
AI firm DeepMind taught an AI to take a maths exam designed for 16-year-olds in the UK, but it only managed to get an E grade
Bumblebees solve the travelling salesman problem on the fly
11 December 2017
While buzzing between flowers, bees can solve the maths dilemma called the travelling salesman problem by finding the shortest route that visits every blossom
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
