How Heron of Alexandria missed his chance to explore the unknown mathematical land of complex numbers.

This article gives a short but thorough introduction to that fabled beast of mathematics: the Mandelbrot set.

Got your popcorn? Picked a good seat? Are you sitting comfortably? Then let the credits roll...

Producing electricity securely, safely, reliably and cheaply has many challenges. Chris Budd explains that the answer to many of these issues is maths.

Quantum particles that are both light and matter help solve infamous NP hard problems.

Want to understand chaos? Then have a look at this famous brainchild of the mathematician Stephen Smale.

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What's wrong with this probability argument?

Here's a quick introduction to the beauty queen amongst mathematical formulas.

In a previous article we found a Möbius strip in Bach's music. This time it's a doughnut shape.

If you like playing with numbers, then this one's for you!

Find out what gravitational waves will tell us about the Universe: from understanding its birth to figuring out whether black holes have hairs.