Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) has set up a mathematics institute to lure any bright mind capable of taking up the challenge of solving the Riemann hypothesis or other unsolved problems in ...

The Cabot Professor of Mathematics sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss life lessons from mathematics, the challenges of formulating good questions, and his work visualizing curved space.

DeepMind, the Google AI R&D lab, believes that the key to more capable AI systems might lie in uncovering new ways to solve challenging geometry problems. To that end, DeepMind today unveiled ...

When a researcher asked Nobel Prize winning physicists and other scientists whether there was any new physics left to discover, this is what they said. The story has been told many times. At the ...

A SERIES of articles in the Morning Post, of which the author is scientific correspondent, formed the idea for this book. It “was to be popular yet accurate; stimulating to the layman yet not without ...

A pendulum in motion can either swing from side to side or turn in a continuous circle. The point at which it goes from one type of motion to the other is called the separatrix, and this can be ...

If you ask your team to work on an unsolved, unstructured problem—to risk being no cause and risk seeing no effect—maybe the emails will pile up. But so will the lightbulbs. The Fast Company Executive ...