According to Shakespeare, music is the food of love. But Jeffrey Rosenthal follows Galileo's observation that the entire universe is written in the language of mathematics - and that includes music.

Stirring the electoral soup

Infinities are tricky things and have perplexed mathematicians and philosophers for thousands of years.

Saying that someone is a chaotic thinker might seem like an insult - but, according to Lewis Dartnell, it could be that the mathematical phenomenon of chaos is a crucial part of what makes our brains work.

Do you need language to do maths?

Peter D Lax wins the Abel Prize 2005.

Extrasolar planets have been grabbing the headlines

7.8 million digits down, only 2.2 million more needed!

Maths may have the answer to why helices are so common in nature.

Mathematics takes out a technology oscar.