Students said they had been overcharged for their educations as a result of incorrect data that they said the school had used ...

A celebrity mathematician and presenter has recently shared on social media a hack to quickly cool your car in a matter of moments.Hannah Fry recently posted on her Instagram account a video ...

Prime numbers are crucial for tech like RSA encryption, so understanding them from every angle is essential for maximum ...

Thirty of the world’s most renowned mathematicians traveled to Berkeley, Calif., with some coming from as far away as the U.K ...

Storyline The mathematician who proved why hipsters all look alike. What brain neurons tell us about the 'hipster effect' when all contrarians end up looking the same.

Measured against that, the Kakeya conjecture – a problem stemming from a 1917 thought experiment by Japanese mathematician ...

Two breakthroughs in mathematics could reshape how researchers understand symmetries in nature and the behavior of complex systems. These advances, led by Pham Tiep, a professor at Rutgers ...

As a mathematician I was fascinated to find that such a sequence could exist. That night I returned to the ancient word. To strip it of irrelevancies I replaced the syllables with digits, ...

The number 1729 is one of my favorites.To mathematicians it is known as the “taxicab of 2.” The story of how it got that name is one of the great legends in modern mathematics.

For Bobby Wilson, a mathematician at the University of Washington, offenses related to race “just start to wash over you.” He added: “That doesn’t mean it’s right or good. ...

In a pair of papers posted online this month, a Ukrainian mathematician has solved two high-dimensional versions of the centuries-old “sphere packing” problem. In dimensions eight and 24 (the ...

The female mathematician who changed the course of physics—but couldn’t get a job (Emmy) Noether's Theorem may be the most important theoretical result in modern physics.