Mathematics done at the highest level involves strikingly different personalities and research strategies, which Mumford characterizes as four different tribes: “explorers”, “alchemists”, “wrestlers” and “detectives”.

The tiny public record reveals a man of exacting and perhaps unreasonable standards, sued by his household staff in a dispute over, among other things, partially filled shampoo bottles. He has emerged very occasionally and cast himself as a computer nerd with a romantic attachment to machines.

Researchers found the technique radically altered religious perceptions and prejudice.

Belief in God was reduced almost by a third, while participants became 28.5 per cent less bothered by immigration numbers.

In the absence of experimental evidence for strongly interacting aristocrats, why should there be resistance to the notions of a complete nuclear democracy?

This composer arranged a song to make cats relaxed. We put it to the test with famous Internet cats.

If the stationary bandit is impulsive and impatient, he can remain a predator for a very long time.

When an amnesic man is attacked by an insect creature, he is saved by a girl with animal ears.

A high school boy has a beautiful girlfriend in her mid-twenties – who has a strange obsession with bones.

If I’m being vague here, it’s because the inner workings of Pip are still mostly a mystery to me.

The archetypical academic, theory-poisoned and indecisive, Hamlet should have stayed at the university in Wittenberg, where his ability to prattle without resolution surely would have gained him tenure.