Is Maths Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths Eugenia Cheng Profile (2023) For many people, the word mathematics evokes bad memories from their school years. Some develop ...

Mathematics is traditionally a solitary science. In 1986 Andrew Wiles withdrew to his study for seven years to prove Fermat’s theorem. The resulting proofs are often difficult for colleagues to ...

Terence Tao, a mathematics professor at UCLA, is a real-life superintelligence. The “Mozart of Math,” as he is sometimes called, is widely considered the world’s greatest living mathematician. He has ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...

Coaching sessions at the People’s Improv Theater were aimed at helping math experts connect with laypeople and give engaging presentations. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll ...

How many atoms are there in the observable universe? Current estimates point to a number we would write as 1 followed by 80 zeroes, or 10 80. If you peered inside each of these atoms and counted their ...

As the computer age dawned, he saw how the new technology could be harnessed to mathematics to solve problems in everything from designing weapons to predicting the weather. By Michael J. Barany and ...

For 90 years, mathematicians have been stumped by a problem that attempts to explain how many people would need to be invited to a party so at least 4 people always know one another. To finally crack ...

The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper ...