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The Times: The world’s finest maths brains By Monique Rivalland
The Times: The world’s finest maths brains By Monique Rivalland

Grigori Perelman, 54

Alex Gerko, 41

Demis Hassabis, 44

Terence Tao, 45

Sir Martin Hairer, 45

Alexandra Botez, 25

Wang Pok Lo, 16

Sir Roger Penrose, 89

Jim Simons, 83

Hou Yifan, 26

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The Times: INTERVIEW - Meet Milo Beckman, the whizz-kid making maths supercool
The Times: INTERVIEW - Meet Milo Beckman, the whizz-kid making maths supercool

Milo Beckman was studying advanced algebra when he was 8. By 15, he was a Harvard prodigy. Now aged just 25, he’s written a brilliant book that takes everything we know (and fear) about maths out of the equation – starting with numbers.

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Education, Higher Education, Interview, Maths, Media Article, Reading, Science, STEAM, STEM, WritingSarah NorrisLando EducationThe Times, Interview, Lando, Lando Education, maths, mathematics, mathematician, Milo Beckman, algebra, equation, Harvard, Harvard University, The Harvard Crimson, Cambridge, Math Without Numbers, Penguin Publishing, academiaComment
Simon Singh: The Maths Masterclass Tutorials (Year 8 & Year 11)
Simon Singh: The Maths Masterclass Tutorials (Year 8 & Year 11)

NB Parents can nominate children. Please see the rules at the bottom of this page.

The Maths Masterclass Tutorials are an intense programme of FREE online Maths tuition designed to stretch and challenge the very best young mathematicians

Following the huge success of our pilot in May, we are now scaling up to a year-long FREE programme. The Maths Masterclass Tutorials programme is delivered by TalentEd in partnership with best-selling author Dr. Simon Singh.

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The Guardian: UK mathematician wins richest prize in academia
The Guardian: UK mathematician wins richest prize in academia

Martin Hairer takes $3m Breakthrough prize for work a colleague said must have been done by aliens.

A mathematician who tamed a nightmarish family of equations that behave so badly they make no sense has won the most lucrative prize in academia.

Martin Hairer, an Austrian-British researcher at Imperial College London, is the winner of the 2021 Breakthrough prize for mathematics, an annual $3m (£2.3m) award that has come to rival the Nobels in terms of kudos and prestige.

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