Plus 1000 — Mathematical lives

Runner up in the schools category Being good at mental arithmetic isn't going to gain you much street cred these days. But, as Owen Daniel explains, not so long ago it was a sure route to fame and fortune — even if you were a horse.

100 years after the birth of Paul Dirac, mathematicians and physicists gather to celebrate his beautiful work.

More than a century after the death of its inventor, the world's first computer printer has finally been constructed at the Science Museum in London.