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Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Armageddon time: how Stanley Kubrick made us laugh at the annihilation of the human race

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(...)

British-Lebanese mathematician Michael Atiyah giving a lecture on the Riemann hypothesis on Monday at the Heidelberg Laureates Forum in Germany. Screengrab: YouTube
World of maths aflutter over new proof of 160-year-old hypothesis

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(...)

An undated portrait of German mathematician Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866). Riemann established the foundations of modern differential geometry and, in 1859, formulated the hypothesis that bears his name. Photograph: Bettmann/Getty Images
Explainer: Has Michael Atiyah conquered the Everest of mathematics?
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  • 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(...)

Ulam played a seminal role in the development of the H-bomb
Stan Ulam, a mathematician who figured how to initiate fusion

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(...)

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Stuck on a difficult problem? Try freewheeling through it

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(...)

Coillte uses linear programming to make decisions about when and where to cut trees to maximise long-term benefits
How applied maths can help money grow on trees

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(...)