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The Monty Hall paradox, named after a game show from the 60s, concerns the way in which information acquired during the course of a game modifies (or...

Statistics seem, almost by their very nature, to convey a positivist message. They are, in fact, a formidable tool in the attempt to master the...

For centuries, geometry was based on Euclid's postulates, which seemed eternal and irrevocable. However, one of the postulates (the fifth) has...

A tessellation is a way of covering a plane with a repeating pattern... Basically, it's like creating wallpaper. In 1975, Marjorie Rice (1923-...

The question is how to make a network that is both "economical" and "robust" without taking up too much space. This is a theoretical question worked...

To begin with, there are the five "Platonic solids" beloved of geometers: the cube, the tetrahedron, the octahedron, the dodecahedron and the...

When mathematics tells us the best way to stack oranges... Formulated in 1611, Kepler's conjecture was finally proved by Thomas Hales... in 1998!...

Can the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil trigger a tornado in Texas? Behind Edward Lorenz's all-too-famous question lies a mathematical theory...

How do you model the movement of a potato in space? Many a mathematician has struggled with this question. At the end of the 19th century,...

Imagine a world where a machine could calculate true and false... Failing that, Church, Herbrand, Gödel and Turing each tried in their own way...

Numbers brings to life the genius mathematicians who discovered new theories and frontiers in math in a way that have never been seen before to show...

This show combines cold hard science with some of the craziest, most spectacular and painful user generated clips ever recorded. Richard Hammond...

Solve The Code and find a real-life treasure! The Code is a three-part TV series about maths in the world around us, presented by Marcus du Sautoy....

For more than 2,000 years, a mathematical riddle has baffled the world’s greatest minds. It’s a problem of such difficulty that it has...

Vetenskapens värld is a popular science TV documentary program broadcast on Swedish Television (SVT).