21 April 2026
Some seemingly simple sequences of multiplication and addition grow so quickly that they question the very foundations of mathematics. In doing so, they demand a whole new level of logic
1 April 2026
April has a lot to offer when it comes to popular science reading, promising to help us do everything from future-proof our brains courtesy of Hannah Critchlow, to get to grips with really big numbers, thanks to Richard Elwes
30 December 2025
Clear out your shelves for a bumper new crop of books by authors including Naomi Klein, Rebecca Solnit and Xand Van Tulleken, says culture editor Alison Flood
25 April 2018
Awarded every four years, the Fields medals honour the brightest young mathematical talent. We look back at some of the most intriguing past winners
8 August 2012
Its services are called upon thousands of times a second to ensure the world's business runs smoothly – but are its mathematics as dependable as we thought?
17 August 2011
In popular literature written by pedlars of postmodern nonsense, Austrian logician Kurt Gödel is often said to have destroyed mathematical certainty with his incompleteness...
27 July 2011
The mysteries of infinity could lead us to a fantastic structure above and beyond mathematics as we know it
1 September 2010
Richard Elwes reports on Harvey Friedman's fascinating work on incompleteness in Boolean relation theory, but it is quite a stretch to extend his work...
11 August 2010
Mathematicians are facing a stark choice – embrace monstrous infinite entities or admit the basic rules of arithmetic are broken
10 August 2010
Some mathematical problems will remain hard no matter how cunning your computer program, a new proof has shown
