Pure mathematics uses mathematics to explore abstract ideas, mathematics that does not necessarily describe a real physical system. This can include developing the fundamental tools used by ...

No matter how good or bad you are at the subject, it doesn’t keep you from relating to the stories of mathematicians. That’s the beauty of these movies: they have some maths here and there, but you ...

French artist and mathematician Élise Grosjean's solo exhibition, "Finely Tiny", is currently captivating audiences at Alliance Française de Dhaka (AFD). The show, which launched on November 1 ...

You can watch a seven-minute free excerpt of Paramount‘s new horror flick Smile 2 online — but the grin you’ll need to plaster on your face is not included. That’s right: The studio has ...

However, in the study published in the peer-reviewed journal Franklin Open, two mathematicians from Australia’s University of Technology Sydney have rejected this theorem as “misleading ...

A new method for determining causality gives scientists a more holistic view of the causal role that contributing factors play within just about any system. Cause and effect. We understand this ...

Two Australian mathematicians have called into question an old adage, that if given an infinite amount of time, a monkey pressing keys on a typewriter would eventually write the complete works of ...

The second perfect number is 28. The 18th-century mathematician Leonhard Euler proved that every even perfect number can be generated from a Mersenne prime, so finding one promises a two-for-one ...

The theorem "owes its name to mathematician Émile Borel, who used the animals metaphorically to illustrate his theory of probability in 1913," according to Manon Bischoff, a theoretical physicist ...

Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Games column in Scientific American fascinated and mystified readers for decades—and his legacy continues to bring mathematicians, artists and puzzlers together.