A pole vaulter and three-time captain on Smith’s track and field team, Kerry Seekamp ’26 is fascinated by the intricacies of ...

More than a century after publishing major papers in theoretical mathematics, German-born Emmy Noether continues to challenge ...

Baez called for the development of new mathematics — he called it “green” math — to better capture the workings of Earth’s biosphere and climate. For his part, he sought to apply category theory, a ...

The progress in AI over the past decade is beginning to suggest answers to some of our deepest questions about human intelligence. Below, Tom Griffiths shares five key insights from his new book, The ...

More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshadow one of the deepest truths in physics. While ...

Scientists found exotic prime numbers may play a role in black hole physics, revealing a surprising connection between number theory and the extreme environments of the universe.

Six mathematicians from the United States, Europe and Canada have emerged as leading contenders for the 2026 Fields Medal, ...

For more than a century, economists have tried to reduce economics to a series of mathematical equations and statistical ...

A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical ...

Fresh research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) could transform how the NHS protects patients' medical images from cyberattacks. Computer scientists have developed a breakthrough way to ...

For more than a century, economists have tried to reduce economics to a series of mathematical equations and statistical analysis. They have failed miserably, ...

No one is certain who discovered pi as we know it today. But we do have some ideas. It seems that the Egyptians used pi in ...