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In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

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The four-year Mathematics MSci offers an additional year on top of the Mathematics BSc, allowing students to specialise further by taking more advanced modules, and undertaking a major final-year ...

This three-year programme allows you to study varied aspects of mathematics to an advanced level, with core modules in algebra, analysis, applied mathematics and mathematical methods. With this core ...

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In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...