“Mathematical symbolism and metaphor are present in every kind of literature, from the humblest of fairy tales right through to War and Peace,” claims mathematician Sarah Hart. In Once Upon a Prime, ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Max Tegmark's Our Mathematical Universe asks some big questions, including the very nature of existence itself--and explains all of them ...

Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future. In May, a ...

Excerpted with permission from Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality, by Max Tegmark. Available from Random House/Knopf. Copyright ...

University of Florida provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. Math can’t catch a break. These days, people on both ends of the political spectrum are lining up to deride the ...

When I tell someone I am a mathematician, one of the most curious common reactions is: “I really liked math class because everything was either right or wrong. There is no ambiguity or doubt.” I ...

Bengaluru: City-based KV Narayana, a retired professor with a PhD in number theory, dissected a few mathematical properties ...

Airs Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sunday, April 1 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 Underlying civilization’s stunning advancements and the technological wonders of the modern age is something ...

Why the challenge of truly representative democracy is so complex. Moon Duchin, who leads the University of Chicago’s Data and Democracy Research Initiative, explores how math can help solve ...