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 ...

Effective descriptive set theory refines classical descriptive set theory by emphasising computability and algorithmic aspects in the study of definable sets and functions, particularly within Polish ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. We recently wrote about how infinitely large sets are not all the same size as each other, but we were ...

At 25, Kurt Gödel proved there can never be a mathematical “theory of everything.” Columnist Natalie Wolchover explores the ...