Peter Badge. Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and building bridges between them is notoriously difficult. Today, the Norwegian ...

This year’s Abel prize, an annual mathematics lifetime-achievement award, bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd Faltings, a ...

Gerd Faltings shocked mathematicians around the world for his 1983 proof of the Mordell conjecture, which brought together ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

A new quantum system called giant superatoms could protect quantum information and enable entanglement between multiple ...

The Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers have engaged on a couple of high-profile trades over the last year. As the Cowboys try to figure out a way to find a starting-caliber linebacker, I wonder if ...

After years of creating highly specialized software, researchers used supercomputer clusters to finally solve the "100,000-body problem.

The first act of the current AI boom was defined by prediction. LLMs were trained to predict the next word in a sentence, acting as sophisticated statistical mirrors of the internet. But for the ...

Over the weekend, user @BholanathDutta shared the equation that looked relatively simple to his thousands of followers, until ...

Student mathematicians spent Saturday crunching numbers and solving equations at Maria Carrillo High School’s library as part of an academic tournament celebrating Pi Day, March 14.

👉 Learn how to solve equations from word problems. A word problem is a real word simulation of a mathematics principle. We ...

Divide any circle’s circumference by its diameter and you get pi. But what, exactly, are its digits? Measuring physical ...