A picture, the old adage goes, is worth 1,000 words. But in science a diagram can describe things that transcend the written word. A single image can convey the simple underlying pattern hidden by ...

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When the Fry Building was being designed as the new home for the School of Mathematics, we wanted to build in public art connected with our subject. We decided to commission a specially-designed brise ...

A Venn diagram is a way of grouping different items. These groups are known as sets. We have a set of golf clubs or a set of dishes – these are just groups of those items. We write a set using a ...