The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch ...

Archytas of Tarentum, who was born around the year 435 BC in Taranto, Italy, was another in a long line of polymaths from Ancient Greece.

From undergraduate study to graduate, postdoctoral and faculty research, women within the Mellon College of Science’s Department of Mathematical Sciences are among those continuing the tradition of ...

The COVID-19 pandemic showed in real time, and with the highest of stakes, how hard it can be to decide if something is true.

This year, the Abel Prize — the field’s highest honor — has been awarded to Masaki Kashiwara, prolific Japanese mathematician ...

Authors Karol Markowicz and Bethany Mandel believe Amazon’s since-deleted, artificial intelligence-generated summary of their ...

MICA is a four-year honours program that gives you a solid foundation in mathematics and also teaches you the technology ... and yet the absence of a proof. The leap that I took in this program was to ...

"I joined the air force 35 years ago, aged 18, and went straight to Germany, based on a Tornado aircraft," says British Air Commodore Andy Turk, who is now deputy commander of the Nato Airborne ...

I have something of a reputation as a party-pooper in the New Scientist office. At our weekly meeting to discuss the latest and greatest ideas in science, colleagues will eagerly describe some ...

As that comment highlights, evidence is often contested and proof elusive ... probabilities and logic? The book continues with a slice of the history of mathematics to demonstrate that even ...