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Masaki Kashiwara

Mathematics

Mathematician wins 2025 Abel prize for tools to solve tricky equations

Masaki Kashiwara has won the 2025 Abel prize, seen by some as the Nobel of mathematics, for his contributions to algebraic analysis and representation theory

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Mathematics

This excellent guide to the science of uncertainty is very welcome

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Why the long history of calculating pi will never be completed

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How breaking the rules of tic-tac-toe makes it way more fun

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We are all bad at choosing random numbers in our own unique way

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Barcodes: How they could be your latest mathematical party trick

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Physics

The 100-year-old symmetry theorem that is still changing physics today

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Maths quirk explains why crosswords are so hard 鈥� until they aren’t

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Mathematics

How a typo spoiled my proof of Fermat鈥檚 last theorem

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Mathematics

This mathematical trick lets you work out the weekday of any date

A little help from Lewis Carroll will enable you to impress friends and family by calculating which day of the week any date is, says Peter Rowlett

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Mathematics

Mathematicians found 鈥� and fixed 鈥� an error in a 60-year-old proof

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Mathematics

Mathematicians spent 2024 unravelling proof almost no one understands

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Mathematics

The surprising maths that explains why coincidences are so common

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Mathematics

Mathematicians have discovered a mind-blowing new kind of infinity

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