John Von Neumann
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Armageddon time: how Stanley Kubrick made us laugh at the annihilation of the human race
- Film
- May 11, 2019, 05:00
Dr Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick’s biting cold war satire which is re-issued in cinemas next week some 55 years after its initial theatrical run, is ar(...)

World of maths aflutter over new proof of 160-year-old hypothesis
- World
- September 24, 2018, 15:13
The 90-year-old mathematician Michael Atiyah has presented what he referred to as a “simple proof” of the Riemann hypothesis, a problem which has elud(...)

Explainer: Has Michael Atiyah conquered the Everest of mathematics?
- World
- September 24, 2018, 15:13
A major mathematical result has been announced by British-Lebanese mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah. In a talk at the 6th Heidelberg Laureate Forum in(...)

Stan Ulam, a mathematician who figured how to initiate fusion
- Science
- April 26, 2018, 12:27
Stanislaw Ulam, born in Poland in 1909, was a key member of the remarkable Lvov School of Mathematics, which flourished in that city between the two w(...)

Stuck on a difficult problem? Try freewheeling through it
- Science
- July 7, 2016, 01:00
Many problems in mathematics that appear difficult to solve turn out to be remarkably simple when looked at from a new perspective. George Pólya, a H(...)

How applied maths can help money grow on trees
- Science
- October 3, 2013, 01:00
A Berkeley graduate student, George Dantzig, was late for class. He scribbled down two problems from the blackboard and handed in solutions a few days(...)