A new theoretical model is prompting physicists to reconsider one of the most fundamental ideas in science: infinity.

The big thinkers at Aperture explore infinity and the different ways it appears in mathematics and physics. Suspected ...

A classic math rule now handles infinity. New work strengthens the math behind physics and unbounded systems. % ...

Yosra Barkaoui’s doctoral dissertation in mathematics at the University of Vaasa, Finland, has successfully generalised a fundamental theorem that has been limited to the bounded case. The research ...

India has a rich ancient history of great achievements in mathematics which has been disseminated in the world and has led different civilisations. Since Indian mathematicians came up with the ...

(THE REPORTER) — Now that everyone has mini-supercomputers that pretend to be phones in their pockets, it can be challenging to get young people to learn problem-solving skills that do not involve ...

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Occasionally, an article from the 1960s will resurface with the claim that mathematics once predicted the exact date of the ...

It’s a complaint many algebra teachers are familiar with, as more letters and symbols are introduced with progressively harder courses in mathematics. But why did the plus symbol emerge as the ...

In 2022, the Bulls, United Airlines and Infinity Math, Science & Technology High School joined forces to create the Infinity Project: a year-long program giving hands-on STEAM (science, technology, ...

Even the most math-phobic readers might forget their dread after just a few pages of Strogatz’s (The Calculus of Friendship) latest. The author, a Cornell professor of applied mathematics, begins with ...

Cheng (How to Bake π), a scientist in residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and honorary fellow at Sheffield University, tackles some difficult concepts in this superb study of the ...