Conversations across science and art

Fractal Modelling of Pollock paintings called into question

Mathematics illustrates the forefront of visualising science

Mathematicians and artists mingle in London

Van Gogh paintings mimic the physics that governs turbulence

Two designers tell us how they took the long way round to design, and how the maths and science they took in on the way helps them with their work today.

Carla Farsi is both an artist and a mathematician, who declared 2005 her Special Year for art and maths. Find out what she got up to, and what it's like being a part of both worlds.

Fractal geometry can identify Jackson Pollock's paintings

Many people find no beauty and pleasure in maths - but, as Lewis Dartnell explains, our brains have evolved to take pleasure in rhythm, structure and pattern. Since these topics are fundamentally mathematical, it should be no surprise that mathematical methods can illuminate our aesthetic sense.

Whether you love maths or hate maths, your opinions on the subject were probably formed early. So primary teachers have a vital role to play in promoting mathematical skills. Plus meets primary teacher and maths coordinator Maureen Matthews.

The work of Donald Coxeter, who died on 31 March 2003, will continue to inspire both mathematicians and artists.

Imagine stepping inside your favourite painting, walking around the light-filled music room of Vermeer's "The Music Lesson" or exploring the chapel in the "Trinity" painted by Masaccio in the 15th century. Using the mathematics of perspective, researchers are now able to produce three-dimensional reconstructions of the scenes depicted in these works.