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

Holly Krieger has won a Whitehead Prize for work that combines number theory and dynamical systems.

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

If you're bored with your holiday snaps, then why not turn them into fractals? A new result by US mathematicians shows that you can turn any reasonable 2D shape into a fractal, and the fractals involved are very special too. They are intimately related to the famous Mandelbrot set.