Ants use complex mathematical principles like optimization, geometry, and network theory to build efficient colonies, ...

In a new book, the mathematical epidemiologist Adam Kucharski explains how certainty, even in math, can be an illusion.

By solving part of the Langlands program, a mathematical proof that was long thought to be unachievable, Dennis Gaitsgory snags a prestigious Breakthrough Prize ...

Say your objects are sets. Then a morphism is a function that maps one set to another. I like to think of category theory as Mad Libs for mathematics. In Mad Libs, you have one story, but you get ...

The mathematics underpinning the modern method of elliptic curve cryptography originated with Renaissance architect Filippo ...

University of Chicago Prof. Frank Calegari has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. The first members elected ...

You may have seen the “no-lift pencil” puzzles online — challenges that ask you to draw a shape without lifting your pencil ...

In the strange and fascinating world of quantum mechanics, particles have long been sorted into just two types: fermions and ...

Researchers from Quantinuum have now developed an end-to-end quantum algorithm capable of solving a prominent problem in knot theory—a branch of mathematics for studying closed loops in 3D space, i.e.

Many brain functions, particularly the senses, are similar across different mammal species.

In the search to understand how the universe came to be, a new theory is rewriting the script. Instead of one massive, fiery ...

For sellers already feeling the pinch from sliding home values, the strategy in 2025 will come down to taking on only the ...