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. Was the virus transmitted via surfaces or airborne particles? Which drugs ...

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 ...

A new book by an infectious disease epidemiologist shows how proof is more elusive than we realize, whether in law, science, ...

The only people who need to worry — and not much at that — are all those misbegotten people who went to college and enjoyed ...

If pure math can teach us anything, it’s this: occasionally, your special interest might just change the world. For Joshua ...

Mathematician Dr. Steven Strogatz breaks down the history of the math concept and brings it full circle to recent science.

"Therefore, God exists." Another expert to test mathematical proof of God's existence Shubham Sharma, a research scholar and expert in theoretical astrophysics and cosmology based in India, has ...

Mathematicians have solved a decades-old problem related to spinning a needle, in what has been hailed as one of the most important mathematical results in recent times. Once seen as “impossible ...

Other unsolved mathematical mysteries are akin to the ... named after the Egyptian mathematician whose book from the popularized the study of such rational solutions. The key challenge, then ...

These results demonstrated that there are fundamental limits to what proof and computation are capable of. Some mathematics can simply never be known. Hilbert’s dream was dead. But it lived on ...