Want some fun to end the week? Try this puzzle, racing to be the first to make a square - either with a friend or against the computer. It's surprisingly addictive!

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Can you hear the shape of a drum? It sounds like a philosophical brain teaser, but it's actually a key question in geometric spectral theory, which has implications for structural engineering and medical imaging.

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Last week the Royal Society hosted an event on #mathematics in the age of #AI to "begin identifying priorities for the mathematical community’s response to developments in AI". Here's our write-up plus.maths.org/golden-age-mat…

If you're starting to look for Christmas presents for the young scientists in your life, friend of Plus Ben Skuse has recently published a new guide to physics that would be a perfect gift.

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💐 Applications for the next round of Emmy Noether Fellowships are open!

Grants of up to £10,000 are open to mathematicians with current or recent caring responsibilities.

Deadline: Mon 30 November

Further details and to apply ➡️lms.ac.uk/grants/lms-emm…

There’s been a lot of confusion about the recent announcement of an AI proof of the Navier-Stokes Problem (which comes with a million dollar reward). In the first podcast of our new season, we spoke to Professor Chris Budd OBE to get to the bottom of it.

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Here at Plus, we already love triangles. But it turns out, they're even more fun in other dimensions. In today's #MathsMinuteMonday, we investigate what happens when a triangle becomes a simplex and what that means in topology.

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It's Halloween tomorrow! We've been getting into the holiday spirit and collected together the spookiest maths we could find. Trick or treat!

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Need a five minute break to reset? Try our interactive simulator of Conway's Game of Life to learn some maths, find out about the patterns underpinning living organisms, and avoid doom scrolling while also giving your brain a restart.

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Just a quick warning to any of our followers in other countries (or insomniacs in the UK), the site will be down at 10pm UK time tonight for about an hour for scheduled maintenance. We will be back soon!

It feels like everyone is coming down with some sort of cold or flu at the moment - so what are your chances of being infected in the office today? In today's #MathsMinuteMonday we explain how epidemiologists try to find out.

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In the UK we need to turn our clocks back this weekend. But there's a lot of different ways of telling the time, many of them relying on the sun. In this article we explore the analemmatic sundial - very different from the garden sundial you might know.

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Our favourite mathematician is no longer on #CelebrityTraitors, but maths can still help the faithful. Traitors is all about updating your assumptions based on new evidence, which is the basis of Bayes Theorem. This summary explains it in just a minute.

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Often when I am working from home, I have a quilt my grandma made on my lap. But looking at it got me thinking about what the best shapes are to make something that tessellates, like a quilt. The hexagon is a classic, but are there ones that don't work?

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As a child (or an adult) you may have had fun making different sounds on glasses, depending on how much liquid is in them. But turning to more common instruments, what about a drum? Can you work backwards from the sound to find the shape of the drum?

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Applications are open for the next round of Inclusion and Diversity grants, providing financial backing to events championing EDI and grant programmes offering direct support to women and under-represented groups in mathematics.

Deadline: 16 December

➡️ lms.ac.uk/grants/lms-inc…

We have started the week feeling very musical so for today's #MathsMinuteMonday we are getting into the links between mathematics and music. But we promise that we won't be singing in any meetings today - for everyone's happiness!

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It's soup season! But as we were waiting for our lunch to cool, we got curious about heat transfer - what is the maths that means that the bowl burns your hands?

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#AI has recently solved some very hard #maths problems. Did it really do that on its own? What does it mean for the future of maths? And how should the maths community respond? We attempt to take stock of a turbulent summer @FacultyMaths
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Continuing our look at AI #proofs: Did AI really solve the Navier-Stokes Millennium Problem? Here's why the answer could be "no": plus.maths.org/navier-stokes-… #maths #mathematics #AI

Today we get a new episode of Celebrity Traitors! Obviously we're rooting for mathematician Hannah Fry, but maths could help any of the contestants - they just need game theory. Game theory explains the maths of strategy, including who to trust.

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