Oxford mathematician, playwright and musician, Marcus Du Sautoy, reveals how creative people can harness the profound and ...

Gravity is everywhere: pulling at your feet, holding satellites in orbit, and making the Earth spin around the sun. Yet, for ...

When huge scientific discoveries are made, you may hear that they are “statistically significant” or pass a threshold called ...

The mathematician is out to show the close link between maths and the arts. This idea isn't new, and while Blueprints is ...

Diophantus of Alexandria revolutionized algebra with Arithmetica, pioneering symbolic notation and abstract number theory.

Isabel Rabey reviews Einstein’s Tutor: the Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics by Lee Philips ...

In a new book, the mathematical epidemiologist Adam Kucharski explains how certainty, even in math, can be an illusion.

The mathematics underpinning the modern method of elliptic curve cryptography originated with Renaissance architect Filippo ...

This book is well researched, with a wealth of detail, but a tad too much of the author’s personal experiences, which ...

My diagnosis of the last 10 years in politics is that everyone is living in Alvin Toffler's world of future shock. Everyone is living in a world where they feel out of control because they correctly ...

The new proof broadly consists of three steps: derive the macroscopic theory from the mesoscopic one; derive the mesoscopic ...

Author of the award-nominated non-fiction book, "Stealing Sisi's Star," now a serial podcast for Blanchard House Productions. MSJ from The Medill School of Journalism.