The letter was signed by 15 university professors specialising in financial maths, including David Hand of Imperial College, Andrew Cairns of Heriot-Watt University and Xunyu Zhou of Oxford.

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Dodly and Flynn take viewers through a lively and fun exploration of maths, using animation, songs and rhymes to explore various areas of mathematics, suitable for primary children.

A recent review shows that fish estimate quantities in a similar way as many other vertebrate animals. By pinpointing the cells and even genes that make basic maths possible, this research could ...