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Latest news from Plus
Could maths have caught Shipman? - Harold Shipman could have been detected
earlier by monitoring the death rates of his patients.
http://plus.maths.org/issue25/news/shipman/index.html
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The Flyspeck Project - After four years of checking, the referees for
the prestigious Annals of Mathematics still can't say for sure if
Thomas Hales' computer-aided proof of the 400 year old Kepler's
Conjecture is correct. So he is taking matters into his own hands and
has set up the Flyspeck Project to show his proof is correct. And he
is looking for computer literate, mathematically proficient volunteers
to help.
http://www.math.pitt.edu/~thales/flyspeck/index.html
Read more about Kepler's conjecture on Plus:
http://plus.maths.org/issue3/xfile/
http://plus.maths.org/issue25/reviews/book4/
http://plus.maths.org/issue23/features/kissing/index.html
Read George Szpiro's article "Does the proof stack up?" in Nature (you
will need to register for a free account):
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v424/n6944/full/424012a_\fs.html
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Mathematical moments
Niels Henrik Abel - Born 5 August 1802, died 6 April 1829. Abel was a
Norwegian mathematician who made a significant impact on mathematics
despite his short and tragic life. This year the Norwegian Government
awarded the first Abel Prize, an award in Abel's honour that is
intended to have the prestige of a Nobel Prize.
Read more about Niels Abel ...
from the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive:
http://turnbull.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Abel.html
from the website of the Abel Prize:
http://www.abelprisen.no/index_english.html
from the Plus archive:
http://plus.maths.org/indices/keyword_urls.html#ABEL%20PRIZE
Happy reading from the Plus team
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