Baez called for the development of new mathematics — he called it “green” math — to better capture the workings of Earth’s biosphere and climate. For his part, he sought to apply category theory, a ...

Vishnu Kannan had just begun learning math as an early elementary school student in Howard County when his older brother came ...

A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical ...

Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles”—the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller ...

Students interested in math are are invited to let their curiosity shine during Rose-Hulman's Sonia Math Day event March 21.

The physics preceptor sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss New York City, interdisciplinarity, and the origins of math.

"Making Amends," an exhibition exploring the the history of all 27 changes that have been made to the Constitution of the United States throughout its 238-year history, opens Tuesday at the Clinton ...

Legendary Prankster Adam B deep-dives into a mind-blowing family mystery by investigating the possibility that a robotic entity is actually a hidden relative.

Fox’s lecture, and the accompanying colloquium he’ll present on March 11, are part of his three-day appearance as the William and Marjorie Blackwell Scholar-in-Residence program. The program is named ...

I used to cancel plans and feel relieved. Not occasionally—almost every time. A friend would text about dinner, and I’d ...

A reader named Sam told me he has a problem. His Windows computers aren't playing nice with each other. Unlike his iPad and iPhone, they're never in sync.

A new computational method allows modern atomic models to learn from experimental thermodynamic data, according to a ...