At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver ...

The technology that has helped propel the simulation theory may be new, but the questions it explores are ancient.

Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His ...

For over a decade, mathematicians have failed to agree whether a 500-page proof is actually correct. Now, translating the ...

Professor Raúl Rojas has published a book about how symbols have been used throughout history in mathematics. The work was translated into English this year.

Georgetown University psychologist Shadab Tabatabaeian, the paper’s lead author, imagines a “cool application” of their ...

Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.

A new study has suggested that the idea of our universe being a simulation does not hold up at all, and it’s not because of a ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to John Hogan, professor of applied mathematics at the University of Bristol, about his research on the "Golfer's Curse" - when a ball looks like it's been sunk, but spins back ...

BEIJING, Nov 11 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has targeted top economic rival China with a cascade of tariffs on imports worth billions of dollars as he tries to narrow a trade deficit, ...