What does packing balls in higher dimensions have to do with getting your message across?

What is dark matter and how can the LHC find it?

Using maths to simulate the behaviour of criminals.

How the maths that is used to predict earthquakes can help fight gang crime.

Making a biased coin fair.

How a special kind of curve can keep your data safe.

Fermat's little theorem and fake primes.

How understanding why something is impossible can often lead to deeper understanding, contemplations of philosophy and even new mathematics.

Marcus du Sautoy talks about football, cryptography, and numbers.

Yes, it does. And we have the maths to prove it.