BYU mathematics professor Doug Corey and a team of students created a YouTube channel devoted to applying theoretical math concepts to real-world problems. Imagine this: the BYU Cougars men’s ...

Monstrous moonshine, a quirky pattern of the monster group in theoretical math, has a shadow -- umbral moonshine. Mathematicians have now proved this insight, known as the Umbral Moonshine Conjecture, ...

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A math problem first posed in the 19th century has been solved. It took more than 200 billion computations, but scientists know understand a bit more about the mysteries of the universe's symmetry.

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Theoretical math tends to be so complicated that even the researchers pushing the field forward can’t quite grasp it all. It turns out that a great deal of mathematicians simply trust that the ...

Choosing a college with a great math program as well as a great dance program — and the flexibility to let me do both — was really important. Bucknell has the best of both. Ingenuity, imagination and ...

Monstrous moonshine, a quirky pattern of the monster group in theoretical math, has a shadow - umbral moonshine. Mathematicians have now proved this insight, known as the Umbral Moonshine Conjecture, ...