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Articles written by interns working with Tom at Tom Rocks Maths HQ in Oxford.

Molly Roberts – A Mathematical Holiday (Part 1): Packing Your Bags

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Molly Roberts – Numbers with Cool Names: Weird, Sexy and Untouchable

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Molly Roberts – Numbers with Cool Names: Amicable, Sociable, Friendly

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Molly Roberts – Numbers with Cool Names: Happy, Lucky and Perfect

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Khanh Giang – Why don’t we have Quantum Computers already?

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Khanh Giang – How do we build a Quantum Computer?

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Khanh Giang – Why do we need Quantum Computers?

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Aidan Strong – Why all music is out of tune

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Aidan Strong – Why all World Maps are Wrong

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Aidan Strong – Why the Cycloid is the best curve

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Ifan Rogers – Traffic Shock Waves

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Ioana Bouros: Mohr-Mascheroni Theorem

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Ioana Bouros: Mendelian Genetics

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Ioana Bouros: Small World Effect

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Ioana Bouros: Frieze Patterns at the Ashmolean Museum

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Ioana Bouros: Wallpaper Groups and Tiling Floors

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Gavin Bala: The Ultimate Guide to Groups: Part IV

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Semu Serunjogi – From Handshakes to Mountains via Bijections

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Gavin Bala – The Ultimate Guide to Groups: Part III

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Semu Serunjogi – Counting Mountain Ranges

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Gavin Bala – The Ultimate Guide to Groups: Part II

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Semu Serunjogi – Counting Socially Distanced Handshakes

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Gavin Bala – The Ultimate Guide to Groups: Part I

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Semu Serunjogi – Catalan Numbers: An Introduction to Recurrence Relations

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Gavin Bala – The 9 Regular Polyhedra

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The Finite Calculus: Part II Integration

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Gavin Bala – The Finite Calculus Part I

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Gavin Bala – How to Build a Settlement on Mercury with the Heat Equation

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Gavin Bala – The Heat Equation and Wine Cellars

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Lorenzo Piersante – How do computers simulate the real world?

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Lorenzo Piersante – How do computers solve equations?

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Lorenzo Piersante – How do Computers do Maths?

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Chenying Liu – Drawing the Cube Root of 2 with Plato

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Chenying Liu – Give Me Paper and I Shall Fold the Cube Root of 2

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Chenying Liu – Creating the Cube Root of 2: From Apollo to Plato

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Siddiq Islam – Is Visual Mathematics Artistic?

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Siddiq Islam – Is Visual Art Mathematical?

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Vlad Bercovici – Mathematically Proving Why You Should Avoid Las Vegas (Part 3 of 3)

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Vlad Bercovici – Linear recurrence relations and how to solve them (Part 2 of 3)

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Vlad Bercovici – Probability is everywhere. But what is it exactly? (Part 1 of 3)

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Wilf Offord – Quantum Teleportation and Entanglement: How do they work?

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Wilf Offord – 5 Types of Infinity

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Wilf Offord – How Quantum Computers Work (and why you should care)

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Becca Tanner – Fermi Problems Part 3: Where is everybody?

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Becca Tanner – Fermi Problems Part 2: Don’t sweat the small stuff

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Charlie Ahrendts – Stop 5: Planet of Continuity

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Charlie Ahrendts – Stop 4: Realm of Chaos

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Charlie Ahrendts – Stop 3: Multi-dimensional World

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Charlie Ahrendts – Stop 2: Fluid Planet

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Charlie Ahrendts – Stop 1: Positivity Planet

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Charlie Ahrendts – Gödels Incompleteness Theorem Explainer

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Charlie Ahrendts – Set Theory Explainer

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Charlie Ahrendts – Axioms of the Real Numbers Explainer

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Charlie Ahrendts – Journeying Across the Mathematical Universe

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Alex Nikic – Testing for Divisibility of ANY Number

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Becca Tanner – Fermi Problems Part 1: Envelopes at the Ready!

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Sam Flower – Level 3: Doughnuts all the way down

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Sam Flower – Level 2: Houston, we have a problem

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Iain Duncan – How fast does Santa travel?

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Iain Duncan – The Maths of Santa Claus

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Sam Flower – Level 1: Space is a Doughnut

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Sam Flower – Maths of the Pokédex

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Amie Campbell – Comparing Disease Tests using ROC Curves and AUC Values

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Amie Campbell – Sensitivity, Specificity and Confusion Matrices

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Sian Langham – The Maths of Poker

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Sian Langham – Catching Fraudsters with Maths

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Sian Langham – Golf and Projectile Motion

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Sian Langham – Binary Code and Storing Music on Computers

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Lewis Baxter – A Problem with Rectangles Revisited

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Justin Leung – Complex Numbers, Air Traffic Control and RADAR

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Justin Leung – Mathsquake: the Maths of Earthquakes

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Ruby Nixson – The Normal Distribution and the Central Limit Theorem

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Ruby Nixson – Gambler’s Ruin

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Ruby Nixson – Benford’s Law

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Megan Bell: The Prosecutor’s Fallacy

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Megan Bell: Bayes’ Theorem and Disease Testing

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Megan Bell: Ghosts, Spam Emails and Bayes’ Theorem

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Jakub Michalski – The Problem with Monty Hall

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Jakub Michalski – Mathematical Modelling: Earthquakes, Coin Flips and Birthdays

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Jakub Michalski: Bertrand Paradox

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Georgie Bumpus: Elliptic Curve Cryptography

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Georgie Bumpus: RSA Cryptography

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Georgie Bumpus: Substitution Ciphers

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Lynn Gui: The early life of e

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Lynn Gui: Why e deserves the name ‘natural base’lynn-2

Lynn Gui: e and the Sheldon Mitosis

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Alex Homer: Monty Hall Origins

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Zhaorui Xu – The Adventurer’s Guide to Mathematopia: Part 3

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Alex Homer: Monty Hall Extended

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Zhaorui Xu – The Adventurer’s Guide to Mathematopia: Part 2

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Alex Homer: Monty Hall Revisited

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Zhaorui Xu – The Adventurer’s Guide to Mathematopia: Part 1

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Zhaorui Xu: Mathematopia – The Adventure Map of Mathematics

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Zhaorui Xu: Sheltering Pigeons (and other thoughts on infinity)

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Aditya Ghosh: Fermat’s Little Theorem

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Aditya Ghosh: When do equations have solutions? (An introduction to Group Theory)

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Aditya Ghosh: The Importance of being Symmetric

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Aditya Ghosh: Modular Arithmetic and calculating expenses

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Nanfan Yi: Infinite Wandering and Wondering

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Nanfan Yi: Infinity – Go Wild or Go Home?

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Nanfan Yi: Different Sizes of Infinities?!

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Nanfan Yi: Infinity at First Glance (Perhaps a Stare)

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Aarya Saraf: The Maths Behind Sex

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Vlad Tuchilus – Oxbridge admission question: how many paths are there between opposite corners of a cube?

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Martha Bozic: What’s your type? The Maths behind the ‘Qwerty’ Keyboard

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Joe Double: from aliens to bees via tattoos

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Kai Laddiman: What are the chances that two England teammates share a Birthday?

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Francesca Lovell-Read: Not so smooth criminals – how to use maths to catch a serial killer

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Mariya Delyakova: Goldbach’s Conjecture – easy but hard

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Kai Laddiman: Complex Numbers – they don’t have to be complex!

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Joe Double: Maths proves that maths isn’t boring

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Kai Laddiman: Spring into action and get ahead of the competition

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Joe Double: Alien maths – we’re counting on it

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Kai Laddiman: This robot is a ‘Cheetah’

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Joe Double: Play Nice!

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