Take a journey to the limits of common sense

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

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.