Does reality arise from information? What does this even mean? Anton Zeilinger explains the impact of John Wheeler's radical idea.

We celebrate the 200th birthday of Ada Lovelace, who anticipated modern computers long before they were built, with a look at her life and work.

Continued fractions reveal the good, the bad and the beautiful side of numbers.

Mathematicians are busy tidying up the largest proof in history.

How calculating the height of a frustum gave a glimpse of the mathematical frontier.

Following on from our previous article about curvature of lines and surfaces, we now move up to curvature of their higher dimensional equivalent – manifolds.

Present and future mathematicians celebrating women from across the mathematical sciences.

The division of plant cells is governed by their shape – just one example of how maths may reveal the fundamental laws underlying biology.

Will computers ever replace human mathematicians?

This year's Abel prize shows you can wrap anything, no matter how weirdly shaped.

Not just the ingredients for a fairy tale...

Folding a piece of paper in half might be easy, but what about into thirds, fifths, or thirteenths? Here is a simple and exact way for fold any fraction, all thanks to the maths of triangles.