While the study of mathematics is typically focused on learning how to apply mathematical operations and formulas, it's also important to learn about its history beyond just shapes and numbers. To ...

The Langlands programme has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up ...

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Using an advanced Monte Carlo method, Caltech researchers found a way to tame the infinite complexity of Feynman diagrams and ...

As Iran marks Information Technology Day, attention turns to a towering figure in human history: Khwarazmi, the 9th-century ...

The world's leading mathematicians were stunned by how adept artificial intelligence is at doing their jobs.

Test your knowledge of taxicab geometry, triangular numbers, the golden ratio and more.

Computers can help ensure that mathematical proofs are correct, but translating traditional maths into a machine-readable ...

He was a mathematician nearly two millennia out of time: “Archimedes was the earliest thinker to develop the apparatus of an ...

Stacking one on top of the other, how far can you get the end of the top block to poke over the table's edge? Keep going.

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An invisible force has long eluded detection within the halls of the world’s most famous particle accelerator—until now.