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    HLF Blogs – Leslie Lamport thinks your proofs are bad

    By Paul Taylor. Posted September 29, 2017

    This week, Katie and Paul are blogging from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum – a week-long maths conference where current young researchers in maths and computer science can meet and hear talks by top-level prize-winning researchers. For more information about the HLF, visit the Heidelberg Laureate Forum website. Bad news: The Turing award winner and father of…

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    HLF Blogs – A Mathematical Easter Egg

    By Katie Steckles. Posted September 28, 2017

    This week, Katie and Paul are blogging from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum – a week-long maths conference where current young researchers in maths and computer science can meet and hear talks by top-level prize-winning researchers. For more information about the HLF, visit the Heidelberg Laureate Forum website. To make all the HLF attendees’ lives easier this…

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    HLF Blogs – Math ⇔ Art: the Gosper curve

    By Paul Taylor. Posted September 28, 2017

    This week, Katie and Paul are blogging from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum – a week-long maths conference where current young researchers in maths and computer science can meet and hear talks by top-level prize-winning researchers. For more information about the HLF, visit the Heidelberg Laureate Forum website. Running alongside the 5th HLF is an exhibition…

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    HLF Blogs – Approximate Gaussian Elimination

    By Katie Steckles. Posted September 27, 2017

    This week, Katie and Paul are blogging from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum – a week-long maths conference where current young researchers in maths and computer science can meet and hear talks by top-level prize-winning researchers. For more information about the HLF, visit the Heidelberg Laureate Forum website. One of the more technical lectures at the…

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    Pandemic – the app

    By Katie Steckles. Posted September 27, 2017

    Hannah Fry

    As of Wednesday, 27th September, the BBC has launched a large-scale mass participation data gathering project called Pandemic. The aim of the project is to collect data about how people move around and interact with each other, and who they come into contact with. And they need you!

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    HLF Blogs – Vint Cerf’s press conference: in quotes

    By Paul Taylor. Posted September 27, 2017

    This week, Katie and Paul are blogging from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum – a week-long maths conference where current young researchers in maths and computer science can meet and hear talks by top-level prize-winning researchers. For more information about the HLF, visit the Heidelberg Laureate Forum website. © Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation / Kreutzer – 2017…

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    HLF Blogs – Math ⇔ Art: what is a rotogon?

    By Katie Steckles. Posted September 27, 2017

    Rotogon based on a square rotated diagonally

    This week, Katie and Paul are blogging from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum – a week-long maths conference where current young researchers in maths and computer science can meet and hear talks by top-level prize-winning researchers. For more information about the HLF, visit the Heidelberg Laureate Forum website. Alongside this week’s Laureate Forum, there’s an art…

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