Mathematicians have broken through a long-standing barrier in the study of “minimizing surfaces,” which play an important ...

THE Heidelberg Laureate Forum, a confluence of brilliant minds in mathematics and computer science, recently fostered a ...

Some say the reason most manhole covers are round is that a circle cannot fall through a smaller circular hole. Which of ...

Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.

Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His ...

For over a decade, mathematicians have failed to agree whether a 500-page proof is actually correct. Now, translating the ...

The COLA method can help identify whether you're operating on speculation, belief, evidence, or principle—and respond ...

Georgetown University psychologist Shadab Tabatabaeian, the paper’s lead author, imagines a “cool application” of their ...

String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...

THIS is the fourth edition of a book which has been received with warm approval by English and Continental geometers. The first eight sections present no notable changes from the corresponding ...