The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In October, a Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida, carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper mission. The $5 ...

Meta's work made headlines and raised a possibility once considered pure fantasy: that AI could soon outperform the world's best mathematicians by cracking math's marquee "unsolvable" problems en ...

With Hugo Duminil-Copin, thinking rarely happens without moving. His insights into the flow-related properties of complex networks have earned him the Fields Medal. The math department at the ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

There is a lot more to math than just equations on a chalkboard. It is a very useful set of tools for tackling problems in many different fields. Math tactics affect our environment in ways that most ...

A straightforward math tweak could bring tachyon fields into line with the rest of physics. Tachyons are faster-than-light particles, and tachyon fields are special cases of quantum field. The math ...

Ukrainian professor Maryna Viazovska received top mathematics prize Fields Medal alongside three others - Copyright AFP Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS Ukrainian professor ...

On July 5, Princeton mathematician June Huh was awarded the Fields Medal — often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Mathematics” — at the International Mathematical Union (IMU) Award Ceremony. The ...