Black holes are usually framed as the ultimate dead ends of the universe, but a new mathematical proposal suggests they might ...

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And that’s exactly what Ottawa mathematician Adam Logan did, as he placed the letters across two triple-word squares in his ...

After more than 40 years in the United States, Qian Hong has left his endowed professorship at the University of Washington ...

One of the first remarkable things that mathematician Shing-Tung Yau reveals in his memoir, The Shape of a Life, is that his name was not originally Yau. His family fled China to British-ruled Hong ...

The boundary-breaking career of mathematician Sophie Germain, born in 1776, began during the French Revolution, when the chaos of Paris confined the then teenage Germain to her home — and to her books ...

#28 in our top science stories of 2019. On July 1, Emory University mathematician Hao Huang quietly proved a theorem — and the mathematics and computer science worlds roared. In an elegant argument, ...

Like everyone else I know, when I go to the beach I think mathematics. Archimedes, my favorite mathematician, did too—his perhaps best-known work is the “Sand Reckoner,” wherein he counts the grains ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The outmoded gender stereotype that women lack mathematical ability suffered a major blow in 2014, when Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to receive the Fields Medal, math’s ...

Black holes are usually cast as cosmic dead ends, places where matter and information vanish without a trace. A new ...