What do you do at Christmas if you are not celebrating? Take a job as Father Christmas, of course.

Frank Benford observed that the number one seems to pop up a lot in both in the supermarket and on tax bills

A circle is also a triangle and a triangle is a square. Sound impossible? Not in the realm of topology

In this episode of our travels in the land of maths, we are heading towards Infinity

We think mathematically about a very philosophical question: is it in our interest to collaborate with others?

Speed is such a common term that it's easy to forget how much of a role maths plays in understanding it

 In Madagascar, where labour costs are low, 100,000 people work to train the algorithms of the world’s digital giants.

The distribution of prime numbers is still a mystery

We have known for a long time that some equations can't be solved as the answers are numbers that don't exist

25 centuries ago, the well-ordered world of natural integers and fractions had to expand to accommodate monsters like pi and √2

In October 1970 Scientific American magazine introduced a game under the heading "Mathematical Games" that quickly became a cult classic

Maths is meant to be certain, either right or wrong. Turns out, it's not that simple...