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140-year-old math problem solved by researcher




A problem which has defeated mathematicians for almost 140 years hasbeen solved by a researcher at Imperial College London. Professor Darren Crowdy, Chair in Applied Mathematics, has made thebreakthrough in an area of mathematics known as conformal mapping, a keytheoretical tool used by mathematicians, engineers and scientists totranslate information from a complicated shape to a simpler circularshape so that it is easier to analyze.


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