Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan’s formula for Pi can help with calculating black holes, studying percolation, or ...

Black holes are usually framed as the ultimate dead ends of the universe, but a new mathematical proposal suggests they might instead be raw material for building shortcuts through spacetime. In this ...

A type of chaos found in everything from prime numbers to turbulence can unify a pair of unrelated ideas, revealing a ...

#28 in our top science stories of 2019. On July 1, Emory University mathematician Hao Huang quietly proved a theorem — and the mathematics and computer science worlds roared. In an elegant argument, ...

Mathematician Per Enflo, who solved a huge chunk of the 'invariant subspaces problem' decades ago, may have just finished his work. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

For the brilliant mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, every positive integer was a personal friend, according to his colleague John Edensor Littlewood. Starring Dev Patel as Ramanujan, this biopic ...

The Nobel Prize winner was 86. His wife was 82. — -- Princeton University mathematician and Nobel Prize winner John Nash, whose life was the subject of the film "A Beautiful Mind," was killed in ...

Disinformation, misinformation, infotainment, algowars — if the debates over the future of media the past few decades have meant anything, they’ve at least left a pungent imprint on the English ...

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