For some weapons, the hardest fight wasn’t against the enemy, in fact it was more so against wear and time. Advanced ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Can numbers really predict your future? In this video, Seema Midha explains the true science and logic behind numerology.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is often treated as a monument of stone, but it also functions as a monument of numbers. I see at ...

Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

It’s no secret that many of us are not too fond of mathematics and geometry, and that it is often too complex. But even so, it can be pretty mind-blowing to look back in history and discover the ...

A century ago, the strange behavior of atoms and elementary particles led physicists to formulate a new theory of nature. That theory, quantum mechanics, found immediate success, proving its worth ...

What is the most important number in the entirety of mathematics? Ok, that’s a pretty silly question – out of infinite possibilities, how could you possibly choose? I suppose a big hitter like 2 or 10 ...

Imagine a mathematical lens so powerful it could bridge the realms of particle physics and cosmology in a way that redefines how we perceive the universe’s architecture, offering a path toward the ...

A shard of smooth bone etched with irregular marks dating back 20,000 years puzzled archaeologists until they noticed something unique – the etchings, lines like tally marks, may have represented ...

Elon Musk shared a chart during a get-out-the-vote rally in Wisconsin over the weekend, which he claimed showed millions of noncitizens received Social Security numbers during former President Joe ...

This post explains the key findings and algorithm of our 2023 SIGGRAPH paper “Winding Numbers on Discrete Surfaces” . What problem does this paper solve? For a given point on a surface, we would like ...