The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

In a world dominated by algorithms, it's common to associate them with a negative bias. Mathematician Clara Grima defends ...

Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. Later, ...

At the height of Europe’s Enlightenment, one man illuminated mathematics like never before — even as darkness claimed his ...

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Two decades ago, the mathematician Moon Duchin spent her summers teaching geometry at Mathcamp, a program for mathematically talented teens. Campers contemplated notions such as how to prove whether a ...

It took a long time for zero to be recognised as a number at all, let alone one of the most powerful ones – but now it’s ...

Princeton University will present its top awards for alumni to Kevin Gover, Class of 1978, under secretary for museums and culture at the Smithsonian, and Terence Tao, a 1996 graduate alumnus, ...

A fundamental link between two counterintuitive phenomena in spin glasses—reentrance and temperature chaos—has been ...

Mathematician Mikhail Ganzhinov found new records for kissing numbers in 10, 11, and 14 dimensions, proving human insight can ...

Penn Engineers have developed a mathematical "Rosetta Stone" that translates atomic and molecular movements into predictions ...

The Nobel Prize is regarded as the most prestigious award for achievements in fields such as physics, chemistry, and medicine ...