It is rare to read about “spectacular progress” or a “once-in-a-century” result in mathematics. That’s for good reason: if a problem has not had a solution for many years, then completely new ...

Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born. In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined the term to describe a family of rough, fragmented shapes that fall outside ...

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Mathematician Per Enflo, who solved a huge chunk of the 'invariant subspaces problem' decades ago, may have just finished his work. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Mathematics continues to serve as a fundamental language through which scientific phenomena are deciphered and understood. Its ability to provide models that not only describe but also explain ...

The Princeton mathemagician, who died in April, left an engaging legacy of numerical gamesmanship. Credit...John Horton Conway Supported by By Siobhan Roberts When John Horton Conway, the Princeton ...

The fourth dimension isn’t something we can perceive, but it can still be an important tool for physicists. Scientists from the University of Missouri used a 4D “synthetic dimension” to develop a ...

Mathematicians say knots cannot exist in four-dimensional space. (Image: Canva) Knots cannot exist in four-dimensional space, say mathematicians. In 4D, any knot can be untied without cutting the rope ...