Video: Is Edward Snowden a traitor? The Post takes to the streets to find out.

9 Jun 2013

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any art or science, is a young man's game," the British mathematician G.H. Hardy wrote in A Mathematician's Apology...

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Mathematician makes prime number breakthrough

26 May 2013

Three and five are prime numbers - that is, they are divisible only by one and by themselves. So are five and seven. And 11 and 13. And for each of these pairs of prime numbers, the difference is...

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Gentle electric shocks to brain boost maths ability

18 May 2013

People who struggle with maths fare better after a course of gentle electric shocks to the brain, British scientists have claimed. Psychologists at Oxford University found that students scored...

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Learning Curve: the wonder of maths

4 Mar 2013

A morning rain was always followed by a clear afternoon. An afternoon rain was always preceded by a clear morning. A total of nine mornings and 12 afternoons were clear. How many days had no rain...

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What the chicken game teaches us about the fiscal cliff

16 Dec 2012

Is the United States about to leap off its "fiscal cliff" and drag the rest of us into the economic abyss? Game theory tells us that this is not likely.

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Mathematician claims to have proved the 'abc conjecture'

23 Sep 2012

This summer, the international mathematical community was abuzz with rumours that a proof of the famous "abc conjecture", a key problem in number theory, had been found.

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Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

China keeping its edge despite grim talk

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Howard Winn

If StanChart doesn't want us, why keep inviting us?

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Is maths necessary? Well, up to a point

'Is algebra necessary?' That is the title of one of the most-read opinion pieces written by a political science professor in The New York Times this week.

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Rise of the robot journalist

Next week, after the London Olympics have begun, you will read stories about athletes pushing human physiology to new limits. What you may not realise, however, is that many of these stories may...

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Cracks in the code: Encryption may be flimsy armour

You're putting in your credit card details to make an online purchase. As you type in your card number, you feel slightly uneasy about sending it into cyberspace.

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We've got your number

If a three doesn't work, try a two. If that doesn't work either, erase it and start all over again. The secret is to always use a pencil because it is easy to correct if you make a mistake - let's...

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Numbers

This is a stick up

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Boree and FashionTV put their feet together to launch hot summer flip flops on a chilly night

At shoe brand Boree's launch in dragon-i, some notable names from the fashion industry tried to heat things up on a freezing night.

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