There are few things more pleasing to your average mathematician than when a result surprises you. Take e, for example – a ...

A type of chaos found in everything from prime numbers to turbulence can unify a pair of unrelated ideas, revealing a ...

For centuries, mathematicians have categorized infinities into a kind of ladder. The infinite set of natural numbers (1, 2, 3 ...

Black holes are usually framed as the ultimate dead ends of the universe, but a new mathematical proposal suggests they might instead be raw material for building shortcuts through spacetime. In this ...

A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For almost 160 years, the Riemann hypothesis has been one of ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...

As an applied mathematician, the tech firm’s founder shares his research that reveals quantum’s inflection point is here with ...

The French mathematician Alexander Grothendieck, who died on November 13 at age 86, was profoundly influenced by his family roots. His father Alexander “Sascha” Schapiro was a Russian Jewish social ...

Like everyone else I know, when I go to the beach I think mathematics. Archimedes, my favorite mathematician, did too—his perhaps best-known work is the “Sand Reckoner,” wherein he counts the grains ...