Every pure mathematician has experienced that awkward moment when asked, “So what’s your research good for?” There are standard responses: a proud “Nothing!”; an explanation that mathematical research ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In October, a Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida, carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper mission. The $5 ...

Elon Lindenstrauss, a Princeton professor of mathematics, has received one of this year's Fields Medals, widely considered to be the math world's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. "One of the best parts ...

The day after he received the Fields Medal for Mathematics, equivalent to the Nobel prize in the subject, Manjul Bhargava’s Inbox was flooded with more than 1000 emails, he told News India Times. In ...

Akshay Venkatesh is an Indian-origin Australian mathematician. (Photo: Twitter) Born in New Delhi, Akshay Venkatesh is an Indian-origin Australian mathematician who was among the four winners of the ...

A straightforward math tweak could bring tachyon fields into line with the rest of physics. Tachyons are faster-than-light particles, and tachyon fields are special cases of quantum field. The math ...

Breakthroughs in physics sometimes require an assist from the field of mathematics—and vice versa. In 1912, Albert Einstein, then a 33-year-old theoretical physicist at the Eidgenössische Technische ...