At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?
Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.
String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...
In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...
The math behind even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major ...
A research team including a scientist of Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan, has identified a novel principle in biology that mathematically explains why the ...