But in her sophomore year, her calculus professor changed her mind. Mathematics, she learned, was the language that all the sciences are written in. “There’s something deeper out there than what’s in ...

Whether you're trying to improve your sight, or test your IQ, this puzzle will prove a challenge to many readers. Put your observation skills to the test and figure out whether you have what it ...

How much area does it take up when you rotate a line segment 360 degrees? Two mathematicians now say they’ve made progress on a very old unsolved math problem. The problem involves a subfield ...

Mathematicians have finally solved a geometry problem that has puzzled the field for decades. By wiggling a needle around while spinning it, you can minimize the amount of space it moves through ...

He was a Greek mathematician and the head librarian at the Library of Alexandria who made history over 2200 years ago with a simple yet ingenious experiment. Eratosthenes became the first person to ...

The world of geometry just witnessed a pivotal breakthrough. Mathematicians at Monash University have cracked a centuries-old puzzle dating back to the 17th century, extending Descartes’ Circle ...

Mathematicians have identified suspicious trading patterns that contributed to the $3.5 billion collapse of the TerraUSD stablecoin and its associated currency, LUNA.

See an example of the kind of research the school is working on in this film I have weekly meetings with my supervisor, not just discussing the research but also how I'm feeling mentally and what I am ...

Walmsley, M. Huertas-Company, J.-C. Cuillandre That is the grand purpose of Euclid, a European space telescope named, aptly, after a Greek mathematician dubbed the “father of geometry”.

You’ve probably busted your March Madness bracket already: and that’s OK (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) As someone painfully ...

A Left-wing upbringing But back to Sullivan. Five feet tall with bleached pixie-cut hair, when we meet at her north London home she is wearing a teal-coloured dress that matches the extravagant ...