James Maynard (University of Oxford)

Approximating Real Numbers by Fractions How well can you approximate real numbers by rationals with denominators coming from a given set? Although this old question has applications in many areas, in general this question seems impossibly hard – we don’t even know whether e+pi is rational or not! If you allow for a tiny number of bad exceptions, then a beautiful […]

Sophie Carr (Bays Consulting)

What Is the Best Super Power? If you could have any power as a super hero, what would it be? Would you choose to be able to use and interpret statistics? Statistics are an everyday part of life – in our social media feeds, news reports and conversations. It’s not always easy to know if we can trust the statistics […]

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