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• Recent Highlights from the Naked Mathematician

Check out some of the best content published by the Naked Mathematician Tom Crawford over the past month… Do you spend your family game nights losing at Monopoly? Would you like to know how maths can help...

• Posted August 12, 2017
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• Breaking Down the 2-hour Marathon

Naked Maths is a brand new project from Naked Scientist Tom Crawford that looks at the maths that’s all around us… Earlier this year Nike attempted the impossible: a sub-2-hour marathon. They may not have succeeded in their original...

• Posted July 29, 2017
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• Naked Maths: Equations Stripped

Putting the Naked in Naked Mathematician, Tom Crawford has launched a new series called ‘Equations Stripped’ where in each episode he takes an in-depth look at some of the most important equations in maths, stripping them back...

• Posted July 18, 2017
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• The Legacy of Maryam Mirzakhani

Iranian mathematician and the first female ever to win the Field’s Medal, Maryam Mirzakhani, sadly passed away after a battle with cancer. Tom Crawford spoke to BBC News about her work and the legacy she leaves behind...

• Posted July 16, 2017
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Naked Maths is a brand new project from Naked Scientist Tom Crawford that looks at the maths that’s all around us… Do you have a burning maths question that you just have to know the answer to? Something you’ve...

• Posted July 10, 2017
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• The Penalty Kick Equation

Naked Maths is a brand new project from Naked Scientist Tom Crawford that looks at the maths that’s all around us… With the ongoing semi-finals of the Confederations Cup and the Under-21 European Championship both being decided...

• Posted July 1, 2017
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• The Maxwell’s equations, the Beatles and the differential geometry

The following video is a song about Maxwell’s equations. Lyrics are written by David Olson with the basis of Let it be by Beatles. Enjoy! Interestingly, Maxwell’s equations have been drastically reduced into a language of differential...

• Posted June 17, 2017
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• A solution to a maximal independent set problem

Article previosly published on Doc Madhattan. A distributed system is a set of autonomous computer that comunicate in a network in order to reach a certain goal. So a maximal independent set (MIS) is a distributed system’s...

• Posted June 11, 2017
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• Pi day 2017: fun and facts

This article was partially published on DocMadhattan As you know, the $\pi$ is defined as the ratio of the circumference to its diameter. This number, which is transcendental, was, apparently, known since ancient times. There are, in...

• Posted March 14, 2017
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• Neural network and astronomy

The following article was previously published on DocMadhattan. There is also an Italian version published on MaddMaths!   Neural network is one of the most powered method to analize data. It can be use in most research...

• Posted February 28, 2017
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