The incompleteness theorem is accepted as part of the mathematical canon today, but columnist Jacob Aron says it was a ...

Native Americans have been playing with dice in games of chance for more than 12,000 years, according to a new paper ...

Many people have likely found themselves watching oddly satisfying videos of random objects being squashed by a powerful ...

“I’ve spent a long time exploring the crystalline beauty of traditional mathematics, but now I’m feeling an urge to study something slightly more earthy,” John Baez wrote on his blog in 2011. An ...

Abstract: We investigate a new type of dataset bias based on the mathematical correctness of object configurations in visual scenes, and how this bias can affect the accuracy of computer vision models ...

There is a rule in mathematics that feels so obvious it barely seems worth stating. Yet accepting it leads to objects with no size, spheres that duplicate themselves, and sets that cannot be measured ...

A decades-old rule in mathematics has just been pushed beyond its long-standing limits, opening new ground for how scientists describe the physical world. At the University of Vaasa in Finland, ...

Illustration of a set of real zeros of a graph polynomial (middle) and two Feynman diagrams. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences How can the behavior of elementary particles ...

Illustration of a set of real zeros of a graph polynomial (middle) and two Feynman diagrams. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences How can the tiniest particles and the vast ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...