A physicist named Nicolas Gisin from the University of Geneva recently published a series of papers that could change our entire view on the concept of “time.” Gisin’s work attempts to reconcile ...

In a nutshell, string theory is a sprawling realm of theoretical physics that assumes that tiny vibrating strings are the ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Veronika Koren talks about pursuing a theory of neural coding that doesn’t fit a simple narrative, and the resilience it took to see it through.

One of the biggest stories in science is quietly playing out in the world of abstract mathematics. Over the course of last year, researchers fulfilled a decades-old dream when they unveiled a proof of ...

THE author tells us that his object is to make the acquisition of a competent knowledge of the theory of attraction as easy as possible for the student. With this view he has given, in addition to the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last ...

IT is only in quite recent times that mathematical methods have been applied in the social sciences or, indeed, in those fields, such as psychology, where the natural and the social sciences overlap.

Emily Riehl thinks hard about objects that don't exist in the material world yet mysteriously seem to underlie many things that do. These objects have no concrete existence of their own, but they do ...