Category Archives: Mathematics

Pi, and why we don’t melt

I got involved in a discussion the other day, initiated by the science writer Natalie Wolchover, about the geometry of the Earth and our intuitive understanding of it.

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Maxwell’s equations: 150 years of light

At the Guardian.

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Emmy Noether, hero of symmetry and conservation: Public lecture with Peter Olver and Ruth Gregory

At the Guardian.

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Given a multiverse, does astrology work somewhere?

At the Guardian.

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