The quest to make mathematics rigorous has a long and spotty history — one mathematicians can learn from as they push to ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover examines the latest developments in the “forever war” over whether string theory can describe the ...

Emily Riehl thinks hard about objects that don't exist in the material world yet mysteriously seem to underlie many things that do. These objects have no concrete existence of their own, but they do ...

Mathematics is one of the oldest disciplines of study. For all its antiquity, however, it is a modern, rapidly growing field. Only 70 years ago, mathematics might have been said to consist of algebra, ...

This book is an interesting sign of the times. The gulf between pure and applied mathematics, in this country at any rate, has of recent years become more and more complete. Indeed there is no one who ...

A mathematical theory of human behaviour may re-organise the social sciences in the same way that Darwin’s Theory of Evolution re-organised the biological sciences, according to new research from the ...