At the University of Vaasa in Finland, mathematician Yosra Barkaoui has successfully generalized a fundamental theorem that had remained confined to “bounded” systems for more than 40 years.

CI Jaekyung Kim of the IBS Center for Mathematical and Complex Systems, Professor Jinsu Kim of POSTECH, and Professor ...

Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

Written as pure mathematics in 1914, Ramanujan’s formulas lay unnoticed for a century. Scientists now say they mirror the ...

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For nearly a century, some of the strangest questions in physics have revolved around how quantum objects move, interact and ...

In this chapter from 'Speaking of History', Romila Thapar and Namit Arora discuss the cultural inferiority complex among ...

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1974, five years before he wrote his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter was ...

TOPEKA — The always busy Bettis Family Sports Complex will be upgraded. The Board of County Commissioners approved of a $717,600 project to update four fields on Monday, Oct. 20. “This project ...

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...