On the eve of COP28 in Dubai, is the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C still alive? What does this mean and is it even possible? Given warming has reached 1.25°C, increasing at around ¼°C per decade, what happens if we miss our target? While every tenth of a degree matters, passing 1.5°C does […]

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Millions of us regularly solve Sudoku puzzles. In this lecture, the mathematics behind them was discussed, and the links to other kinds of number grids, like magic squares and so-called Latin squares, which have been studied for centuries. Latin squares have many applications in areas as diverse as experiment design, algebra and coding theory. https://www.gresham.ac.uk/sites/default/files/transcript/2023-11-21_1300_Hart-T%20%28PDF%29.pdf […]

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