The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

Is artificial intelligence replacing human genius in mathematics, or redefining it? From the Navier-Stokes mystery to ...

A claim indicating that the world could end on Friday, November 13, 2026, traces back to a 1960 population study by University of Illinois researchers. The mathematical model suggested that the ...

How a mix-up over Ramanujan films and a book on non-European mathematics reveals the profound difference between intuitive ...

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Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

Alexander Bobenko has spent the past 20 years chewing on mathematical doughnuts. In the 2000s, he tried to prove that compact ...

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A $1 million prize awaits anyone who can show where the math of fluid flow breaks down. With specially trained AI systems, ...

There’s really no shortage of end-of-the-world predictions. People have been convinced civilisation is about to collapse for ...

National Mathematics Day is celebrated every year on December 22 to mark the birth anniversary of India’s legendary mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. The day is observed across schools and colleges ...