Mike Yates looks at the life and work of wartime code-breaker Alan Turing. Find out what types of numbers we can't count and why there are limits on what can be achieved with Turing machines.
Mathematics is a maze, according to Ian Stewart at the Royal Institutions Christmas Lecture.
New technology has provided us with some amazing images - satellite images, medical images, even images beamed back from Mars. Julian Stander tells us about the increasing role of statistics in interpreting them.
In his second article, David Henwood explains the role of mathematics in the design of Hi-Fi loudspeakers.
Coincidences are familiar to us all but what are the so-called laws of chance? From coin tossing to freak weather events, Geoffrey Grimmett explains how probability is at the heart of it all.
We know there is infinitely many primes, but are there infinitely many twin primes?
In issue No 1 we introduced GIMPS, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. Well, on Sunday 24th August 1997 they did it again.
Numbers like Pi have no repeating pattern. So just how accurately do we know what it is?
