A physicist named Nicolas Gisin from the University of Geneva recently published a series of papers that could change our entire view on the concept of “time.” Gisin’s work attempts to reconcile ...

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Daniel Glasscock, an assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, tapped two undergraduate students to verify his ...

The world of mathematics is filled with marvelous mysteries. For many mathematicians ABC conjecture is possibly at the top of that list, stated Live Science. The problem is so confusing that even its ...

The Joseph Henry Press, an imprint of the National Academies Press, was created with the goal of making books on science, technology, and health more widely available to professionals and the public.

The cosmological constant is the mathematical description of the energy that drives the ever-accelerating expansion of the ...

At the frontiers of theoretical physics, many of the most popular ideas have one thing in common: they begin from a mathematical framework that seeks to explain more things than our currently ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - A U.S. Army-funded researcher who developed a mathematical theory for complex systems such as networks, power grids and the human brain, has received a prestigious ...

A new theory regarding how the brain first learns basic math could alter approaches to identifying and teaching students with math learning disabilities. Published in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...