How to keep warm and safe

In last issue's Graphical methods I Phil Wilson used maths to predict the outcome of a cold war in slug world. In this self-contained article he looks at slug world after the disaster: with only a few survivors and all infra-structure destroyed, which species will take root and how will they develop? Graphs can tell it all.

A brave new computer society

Maths finds the structures that underpin written language

Could you be a Plus author?

Physicists create a quantum Newton's cradle - and witness an absence of chaos for the first time.

The Plus career posters achieve TV fame

A mathematical model evaluates responses to epidemics

The new Maths KTN is showing business how to do mathematics and mathematics how to do business.

The 2006 Abel prize celebrates the mathematician who helped make mp3s possible.

An algorithm for solving Sudoku puzzles from an unexpected source