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Cambridge mathematician awarded 2018 Fields Medal

01 Aug 2018

University of Cambridge mathematician Caucher Birkar has been named one of four recipients of the 2018 Fields medals, the most prestigious awards in...

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Soap film singularity

A new twist on soap films

23 May 2014

Soap films with complex shapes shed light on the formation of mathematical singularities, which occur in a broad range of fields.

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Space, balance and form

17 Apr 2013

One of Britain’s greatest living sculptors is to have his work publicly displayed at Cambridge University’s Churchill College.

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Poincare

Festival of Ideas explores a 'colossus of physics, philosophy and mathematics'

25 Oct 2012

A University of Cambridge academic is to describe how the insights of a great nineteenth century French mathematician and theoretical physicist...

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