The search for the maths gene

Maths brings down the Mafia

Fractal geometry can identify Jackson Pollock's paintings

A major advance towards the twin prime conjecture

The maths of the Eurovision song contest

A mathematician finds another proof for Fermat's last theorem

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.