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What's the problem with AI images tools?
AI excels when fed perfect data, but falters in the real world.
Discover where deep learning hits its limits and why timeless math holds the key to robust, universal imaging.
With Professor Carola Schönlieb
@leverhulme.ac.uk ; @plusmaths.bsky.social
AI excels when fed perfect data, but falters in the real world.
Discover where deep learning hits its limits and why timeless math holds the key to robust, universal imaging.
With Professor Carola Schönlieb
@leverhulme.ac.uk ; @plusmaths.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
What's the problem with AI images tools?
AI excels when fed perfect data, but falters in the real world.
Discover where deep learning hits its limits and why timeless math holds the key to robust, universal imaging.
With Professor Carola Schönlieb
@leverhulme.ac.uk ; @plusmaths.bsky.social
AI excels when fed perfect data, but falters in the real world.
Discover where deep learning hits its limits and why timeless math holds the key to robust, universal imaging.
With Professor Carola Schönlieb
@leverhulme.ac.uk ; @plusmaths.bsky.social
If you zoomed in on the space we live in, would you find it's pixelated? Perhaps! Find out more with today's door of our #adventcalendar plus.maths.org/content/adve... #maths #mathematics #quantum
December 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
If you zoomed in on the space we live in, would you find it's pixelated? Perhaps! Find out more with today's door of our #adventcalendar plus.maths.org/content/adve... #maths #mathematics #quantum
Tired of the same old routine? The last few doors of our #adventcalendar have explored the "many worlds" interpretation of #quantum mechanics. A version of you may be living it up with cocktails on the beach! plus.maths.org/content/adve...
December 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Tired of the same old routine? The last few doors of our #adventcalendar have explored the "many worlds" interpretation of #quantum mechanics. A version of you may be living it up with cocktails on the beach! plus.maths.org/content/adve...
How is number theory related to dynamical systems? Find out with Holly Krieger, who also tells us about appearing on Numberphile and has advice for budding mathematicians plus.maths.org/content/holl... #maths #mathematics
Holly Krieger and the dynamics of numbers
We talk to Krieger about her work, sharing mathematics with wider audiences, and advice for young mathematicians
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December 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM
How is number theory related to dynamical systems? Find out with Holly Krieger, who also tells us about appearing on Numberphile and has advice for budding mathematicians plus.maths.org/content/holl... #maths #mathematics
Today's door of our #adventcalendar opens on the future of #computing! plus.maths.org/content/adve... #maths #mathematics #quantum
December 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Today's door of our #adventcalendar opens on the future of #computing! plus.maths.org/content/adve... #maths #mathematics #quantum
Have you been opening the doors of our #adventcalendar? The last few days we explored Schrödinger's equation. And today we're talking to one of our favourite physicist, the amazing David Tong, about 100 years of #quantum mechanics and more! plus.maths.org/content/adve... #maths #mathematics
December 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Have you been opening the doors of our #adventcalendar? The last few days we explored Schrödinger's equation. And today we're talking to one of our favourite physicist, the amazing David Tong, about 100 years of #quantum mechanics and more! plus.maths.org/content/adve... #maths #mathematics
It's been raining outside and the cat came home wet. People are also carrying umbrellas. Which reminds us that #correlation isn't #causation plus.maths.org/content/math... #maths #mathematics #statistics
Maths in a minute: Correlation versus causation
Wet cats don't cause umbrellas and umbrellas don't cause wet cats.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
It's been raining outside and the cat came home wet. People are also carrying umbrellas. Which reminds us that #correlation isn't #causation plus.maths.org/content/math... #maths #mathematics #statistics
Today's door of our #adventcalendar: explaining #quantum mechanics in as few words as we could get away with plus.maths.org/content/adve...
December 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Today's door of our #adventcalendar: explaining #quantum mechanics in as few words as we could get away with plus.maths.org/content/adve...
Reality gets decidedly wobbly behind door #4 of our #advent calendar! plus.maths.org/content/adve... #maths #mathematics #quantum #physics
December 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Reality gets decidedly wobbly behind door #4 of our #advent calendar! plus.maths.org/content/adve... #maths #mathematics #quantum #physics
Behind today's door of our #adventcalendar we meet the most famous cat in all of science! plus.maths.org/content/adve...
December 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Behind today's door of our #adventcalendar we meet the most famous cat in all of science! plus.maths.org/content/adve...
#OTD in 1966 mathematician L.E.J. Brouwer passed away. Among other things he developed "intuitionism", an approach to #maths which rejects proofs by contradiction. It's fascinating! Find out more in this article plus.maths.org/content/intu... #philosophy #mathematics
Intuitive mathematics
Can a mathematical object be said to exist if you can't construct it?
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December 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
#OTD in 1966 mathematician L.E.J. Brouwer passed away. Among other things he developed "intuitionism", an approach to #maths which rejects proofs by contradiction. It's fascinating! Find out more in this article plus.maths.org/content/intu... #philosophy #mathematics
Is it waves? Or is it particles? Find out with today's door of our #adventcalendar plus.maths.org/content/adve... #maths #quantum #mathematics
December 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Is it waves? Or is it particles? Find out with today's door of our #adventcalendar plus.maths.org/content/adve... #maths #quantum #mathematics
Do you communicate, or have a stake in communicating, complex #maths and data science? Then you might be interested in our conference on Jan 29, 2026 at @NewtonInstitute, organised with @NewtonGateway. Registration is now open! gateway.newton.ac.uk/event/tgm156/
December 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Do you communicate, or have a stake in communicating, complex #maths and data science? Then you might be interested in our conference on Jan 29, 2026 at @NewtonInstitute, organised with @NewtonGateway. Registration is now open! gateway.newton.ac.uk/event/tgm156/
Woohooo! The 1st door of our #AdventCalendar can now be opened! This year the calendar celebrates 100 years of #quantum mechanics. But don't worry, we're off to a gentle start plus.maths.org/content/adve...
December 1, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Woohooo! The 1st door of our #AdventCalendar can now be opened! This year the calendar celebrates 100 years of #quantum mechanics. But don't worry, we're off to a gentle start plus.maths.org/content/adve...
Our #adventcalendar2025 is now live! We know it's sill November but we couldn't resist. This year we celebrate 100 years of #quantum mechanics. Come and enjoy this most marvellous combination of #maths and nature! plus.maths.org/content/adve...
November 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Our #adventcalendar2025 is now live! We know it's sill November but we couldn't resist. This year we celebrate 100 years of #quantum mechanics. Come and enjoy this most marvellous combination of #maths and nature! plus.maths.org/content/adve...
Carola is a favourite colleague here at Cambridge! Here are some more videos with her by @leverhulme.ac.uk and @expeditions.bsky.social together with some articles about Carola's #maths plus.maths.org/content/meet... #mathematics
November 26, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Carola is a favourite colleague here at Cambridge! Here are some more videos with her by @leverhulme.ac.uk and @expeditions.bsky.social together with some articles about Carola's #maths plus.maths.org/content/meet... #mathematics
You might have heard of the golden ratio, but do you know the silver ratio? And other metallic ratios? Find out more here plus.maths.org/content/silv... #maths #mathematics
Metallic numbers: Beyond the golden ratio
You've heard of the golden ratio but have you heard of the silver ratio? And all its other cousins called the metallic numbers? Read this article to meet the family!
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November 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
You might have heard of the golden ratio, but do you know the silver ratio? And other metallic ratios? Find out more here plus.maths.org/content/silv... #maths #mathematics
Do you communicate, or have a stake in communicating, complex #maths and data science? Then you might be interested in our conference on Jan 29, 2026 at @NewtonInstitute, organised with @NewtonGateway. Registration is now open! gateway.newton.ac.uk/event/tgm156/
Listening and Responding to Public Interest: A Mathsci-comm Network Event - Newton Gateway to Mathematics
This one-day workshop, organised on behalf of the Mathsci-comm Network, will explore how the communication of research in mathematics and data science to...
gateway.newton.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Do you communicate, or have a stake in communicating, complex #maths and data science? Then you might be interested in our conference on Jan 29, 2026 at @NewtonInstitute, organised with @NewtonGateway. Registration is now open! gateway.newton.ac.uk/event/tgm156/
Carola is a colleague who does amazing work on the #maths of information. We love these videos courtesy of @joinExpeditions and and The Leverhulme Trust where she talks about her work plus.maths.org/content/meet...
November 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Carola is a colleague who does amazing work on the #maths of information. We love these videos courtesy of @joinExpeditions and and The Leverhulme Trust where she talks about her work plus.maths.org/content/meet...
What do you get when a physicist writes a book with a theatre and film person? Something we all can understand! Even if it is about #quantum #physics. Find out more in the latest episode of our #podcast plus.maths.org/content/livi...
Living Proof: Céline Broeckaert and Frank Verstraete
In this episode of Living Proof we talk to a playwright and a physicist about a book they have written together on the marvellous but tricky theory of quantum mechanics!
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November 12, 2025 at 10:11 AM
What do you get when a physicist writes a book with a theatre and film person? Something we all can understand! Even if it is about #quantum #physics. Find out more in the latest episode of our #podcast plus.maths.org/content/livi...
How do you know whether a mathematical model of a real-world process is accurate? How do you explain it to others? One way is to imagine you're living inside it! Join us for an adventure in model land in the latest episode of our #podcast plus.maths.org/content/adve... #maths #math
Adventures in Model Land
Would you like to play a game? Have an adventure? Join us on an adventure in Model Land!
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November 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
How do you know whether a mathematical model of a real-world process is accurate? How do you explain it to others? One way is to imagine you're living inside it! Join us for an adventure in model land in the latest episode of our #podcast plus.maths.org/content/adve... #maths #math
Haha! There's a Wikipedia entry on "Abstract nonsense"! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstrac... #maths #math #physics
Abstract nonsense - Wikipedia
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November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Haha! There's a Wikipedia entry on "Abstract nonsense"! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstrac... #maths #math #physics
Very interesting to be at the Newton Institute for a workshop on #quantum simulation and #quantum #computing organised by the Newton Gateway gateway.newton.ac.uk/event/ofbw75/
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
The Isaac Newton Institute is a national and international visitor research institute. It runs research programmes on selected themes in mathematics and the mathematical sciences with applications ove...
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November 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Very interesting to be at the Newton Institute for a workshop on #quantum simulation and #quantum #computing organised by the Newton Gateway gateway.newton.ac.uk/event/ofbw75/
What are #proof assistants? And how do they turn #maths into a collaborative game of many players? Find out in the latest episode of our #podcast featuring Kevin Buzzard plus.maths.org/content/livi... #math #mathematics
Kevin Buzzard and Big Proof
How can computers best help mathematicians? Not through AI, says Kevin Buzzard, but through proof assistants. This podcast explains what they are and why they turn maths into a collaborative game of m...
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October 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
What are #proof assistants? And how do they turn #maths into a collaborative game of many players? Find out in the latest episode of our #podcast featuring Kevin Buzzard plus.maths.org/content/livi... #math #mathematics
In the latest episode of our #podcast we talk to Moustapha Fall about AIMS Senegal, winning a Ramanujan Prize, and challenges for #maths in sub-Saharan #Africa plus.maths.org/content/livi... #mathematics
Living Proof: Moustapha Fall
In this episode of the Living Proof podcast we meet Moustapha Fall, President of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Senegal and winner of a prestigious Ramanujan Prize for Young...
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October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
In the latest episode of our #podcast we talk to Moustapha Fall about AIMS Senegal, winning a Ramanujan Prize, and challenges for #maths in sub-Saharan #Africa plus.maths.org/content/livi... #mathematics