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

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 ...

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 ...

In the 20th-century statistics wars, Bayesians were underdogs. Now their methods may help speed treatments to market.

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

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.

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

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

Born in Brooklyn in 1942, Freed’s scientific trajectory began early; he and his brother Jack, who himself would go on to ...

The parity-identification problem fits naturally into this landscape. Parity is a global property, insensitive to most local details. In this respect, it resembles many other quantities studied in ...

It’s hard to think of a harder reverse in terms of definition – something quintessentially heavy coming, over time, to mean ...

Kelly’s is provocative, to say the least. He suggests that at its core, good writing draws readers in by dropping certain kinds of references in a mathematical way that constitutes an “algorithm,” ...