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How a scribble in the margin of a textbook taunted mathematicians for centuries.

James Maynard tells us why he is counting prime numbers that don't have 7 as a digit, and how he takes inspiration from ideas in music, engineering and science.

Find out how a graph and some pots of paint can solve many problems.

Solving a tricky puzzle with a very neat mathematical argument.

How many colours do you need to colour a map?

Why can you only use three of the regular polygons to tile a wall?

A tricky problem can be solved by picturing it in a new way.

Why can you only use three of the regular polygons to tile a wall?

The coordinate system we commonly use is named after the French mathematician René Descartes, and was (allegedly) inspired by a fly on the ceiling.

How to build a kingdom on a mathematical trick.

Why the humble average can be grossly misleading.

The triangle is one of the simplest shapes there are. But this doesn't mean that it's not important!

Find out how a 19th century mathematician made modern computers possible

In this article, we outline everything we think you need to know as the parent or carer of a child using the Wild site. Read on to find out what Wild is, who it’s for, and how you might support your child as they delve into the exciting world of creative maths!

Find out how Julia Gog is using maths to fight influenza.

Find out how Florence Nightingale used pictures to bring statistics to life.

Discover a completely new area of maths with Leonhard Euler.

How a toy led Manjul Bhargava to a mathematical discovery.

Meet Albert Einstein and his act of "pure creation".

Learn how to make a snowflake with six-fold symmetry.

There's a winning strategy for all the games here. But finding it is another story...

You might have strategy, but that doesn't mean you're going to win!

Sometimes games that look completely different are actually the same.

Can you feed infinitely many people with just one cake? And if so, how should you cut it?

Confused by a game? Draw a picture of it!

Discover why your teachers have not always told you the whole truth about triangles...

Sometimes drawing the right picture allows you to find order in something that, at first glance, looks like one big mess.

We explore the winning strategy for the game of Nim, which is related to some games in this collection — but it's not for the mathematically faint-hearted!

Find out how playing with straight lines and a compass can reveal all the rules of geometry...

Find out how the fold and cut problem has fascinated mathematicians for centuries.

Discover how you can solve a very old problem with just a few folds...

Explore what you can do with a single fold in this article about the axioms of origami.

What do we mean by infinity? Did you know there's more than one kind of infinity? Read this article and all will be revealed!

Folding a piece of paper in half might be easy, but what about folding it into thirds, fifths, or even thirteenths?

An infinite set is called countable if you can count it. Read this article to find out how to count infinite sets!

Find out why we can fold any fraction thanks to similar triangles

Sometimes real progress in maths comes when you find a way of looking at a problem in two different ways.

Are there more irrational numbers than rational numbers, or more rational numbers than irrational numbers? How can we make sense of questions like this about infinity?

Explore how repeating simple calculations can quickly lead to chaos.

Find out about the life of one of the greatest ever self-taught mathematicians, who worked on advanced versions of problems similar to those on this website!

How do you decide if a problem is easy or hard? What if you're using computers to help you solve your problem?

Explore the mysteries behind partitions – how many different ways it's possible to write numbers as a sum.

Meet the man behind the Fibonacci sequence

Discover some of the surprising places you'll find the Fibonacci sequence

Some books and websites you may find interesting...

Find out all about greedy algorithms in this short article.