A mathematical problem that had remained unsolved for more than 10 years in the physics of complex systems has finally been ...

Several fields of mathematics have developed in total isolation, using their own "undecipherable" coded languages. In a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Tamás ...

Physicists have built a real-number version of quantum mechanics that makes all the same predictions as the standard theory, ...

“The Impossible Man,” by Patchen Barss, depicts the British mathematical physicist and Nobelist Sir Roger Penrose in all his iconoclastic complexity. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an ...

AI believer: Sanjeev Arora on the stage at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum explaining his ideas about superhuman AI mathematicians. (Courtesy: Christian Flemming/HLF) When researchers at Microsoft ...

A casual lunch between friends in the late 1970s left behind one of physics' quirkiest unsolved puzzles. Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, while dining with his friend Ralph Leighton at a Thai ...

Modern physicists are concerned with the infinitely large—the universe—and the indefinitely small—the electron. Accepted key to the puzzle of the universe is Einstein’s theory of relativity. Crux of ...

Some scientists make discoveries. Others create entirely new ways of understanding the universe. Harish-Chandra belonged to ...

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. – Carl Frederick Gauss (1777–1855), German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist God ever geometrizes. – Plato (c ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time ...