Marianne Freiberger

The paths of billiard balls on a table can be long and complicated. To understand them mathematicians use a beautiful trick, turning tables into surfaces.

We might have found the Higgs boson, but the search for new physics at the LHC isn't over yet.

Interalia is a show by Turner Prize winning artist Grenville Davey and theoretical physicist David Berman.

The natural numbers, 1, 2, 3, 4, ..., are nice. So what could be nicer than discovering interesting patterns within them?

Like spirals and flowers? Then you'll love polar coordinates and the pretty pictures they allow you to draw!

By the 1970s physicists had successfully tamed three of the fundamental forces using a sophisticated construct called quantum field theory. The trouble was that the framework seemed to fall apart when you looked at very high or very low energy scales. So how could these be thought of as valid theories? It's a question physicists are still grappling with today.

The ability to see order in chaos has won the mathematician Yakov G. Sinai the 2014 Abel Prize.

The early 1950s were an experimental gold mine for physicists, with new particles produced in accelerators almost every week. Yet the strong nuclear force that acted between them defied theoretical description, sending physicists on a long and arduous journey that culminated in several Nobel prizes and the exotic concept of "asymptotic freedom".