More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.

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It took over a decade of checking and rechecking before his fellow mathematicians were happy that Dr Hales’s calculations ...

Google DeepMind’s AlphaProof system solved International Mathematical Olympiad problems at a silver-medal level earlier this ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company ...

Countless debates in classrooms, lecture halls and online forums have swirled around the question of whether 0.999... equals 1. Teachers, professors and math-savvy Internet users repeatedly affirm ...

Picture the typical espresso machine at your favorite cafe. The small dish into which your friendly barista tamps coffee ...

The Navier-Stokes equations capture in a few succinct terms one of the most ubiquitous features of the physical world: the flow of fluids. The equations, which date to the 1820s, are today used to ...

The equal sign is the bedrock of mathematics. It seems to make an entirely fundamental and uncontroversial statement: These things are exactly the same. But there is ...

As the U.S. looks toward the 2018 midterm elections, it's worth noting that hundreds of scientists and other STEM professionals have decided to run for office. As someone with a math background, I ...

Mariana Cook’s book Mathematicians: An Outer View of the Inner World was published by Princeton University Press in 2009 and is a remarkable collection of ninety-two photographic portraits featuring ...