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The inexorable rise in human life expectancy
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The trouble with predicting the markets
That’s Maths: Even mathematical models such as the Black-Scholes equation are no help against surprise market upheavals
Biomathematics: the great frontier of the 21st century?
Some argue that by 2100 biology and mathematics will have changed each other dramatically
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