How the need to locate your location at sea led to some interesting mathematics.

A new institute on the maths of information has just been launched at the Faculty of Mathematics in Cambridge.

A quick look at the role of mathematics in communication — from making and breaking codes to making sure messages arrive intact.

So easy to describe, yet so hard to prove.

Clever geometry produces materials that shrink when heated.

If only the fittest survive, how can we explain the evolution of altruism? Mathematics has some answers.

The US election circus is in full swing. Here's a dose of election maths to help you through.

Why a positive test result doesn't necessarily mean you have the disease.

Computer scientists have made a breakthrough in the theory of cake cutting.

Are there problems computers will never be able to solve, no matter how powerful they become?

In the 1930s Alan Turing discovered a computer program that is logically impossible. What other limits are there to computation?