Is Maths Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths Eugenia Cheng Profile (2023) For many people, the word mathematics evokes bad memories from their school years. Some develop ...

Reading a math paper is a bit like having dinner at a nice restaurant. The entrée might taste delicious, but it doesn’t tell the full story of how it was made. Clever recipes that end up tasting funky ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...

As the computer age dawned, he saw how the new technology could be harnessed to mathematics to solve problems in everything from designing weapons to predicting the weather. By Michael J. Barany and ...