At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

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

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

David Cook II has always loved numbers.  He remembers, from a very young age, sitting in the back seat of the family car and ...

Whenever someone talks about black holes, they almost always talk about the event horizon and the singularity. After all, ...

Two decades ago, the mathematician Moon Duchin spent her summers teaching geometry at Mathcamp, a program for mathematically talented teens. Campers contemplated notions such as how to prove whether a ...

Through a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Jenny Quan is exploring the mathematical principles behind Rubik's cubes.

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Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

From powering search engines to securing data and optimizing networks, algorithms underpin nearly every aspect of modern technology. Understanding how efficiently they can solve problems — and where ...

Abstract: Over years, virtual backbone has attracted lots of attention as a promising approach to deal with the broadcasting storm problem in wireless networks. Frequently, the problem of a quality ...