A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...

Is there an infinity of infinities? The question sounds almost absurd, like a child’s riddle meant to twist your brain into ...

But primes are often considered the building blocks of mathematics, and math itself is the scaffolding that supports ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Peter Watson, Emeritus professor, Physics, Carleton ...

Hints of a mirror cosmos have a way of gripping the imagination, and recent chatter about “first proof” of a parallel ...

Almost 400 years ago, in The Assayer, Galileo wrote: “Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe … [But the book] is written in the language of mathematics.” He was much more than an ...

Mathematics is the cornerstone of science, technology, and money. It comprises branches like Calculus and Algebra, ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Scientists have long used mathematics to describe the physical properties of the universe. But what if the universe itself is math? That's what cosmologist Max Tegmark believes. In ...

Almost 400 years ago, in The Assayer, Galileo wrote: “Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe … [But the book] is written in the language of mathematics.” He was much more than an ...