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How a little insect can cause chaos.

Kinetic theory bridges the gap between the big and the small to understand systems made up of many components: from plasmas to people.

This year's Abel Prize goes to the "true virtuoso" Dennis Sullivan.

Get a fish to teach you chaos theory!

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

How a maths competition spawned the foundations of chaos theory.

How simples rules can result in very complex outcomes.

Artur Avila tells us about taming chaos.

Artur Avila is being honoured for "formidable technical power, the ingenuity and tenacity of a master problem-solver, and an unerring sense for deep and significant questions."

It's one of the most beautiful sights in nature: fireflies illuminating the night with their synchronised flashing. Mathematicians have just solved a 40 year-old problem behind this striking phenomenon.