Such questions are critical to a long-standing puzzle of percolation theory, a subfield of probability theory focused on the ...

However, string theory provides a "fantastically clever way of solving the problem," Aganagic says, without violating any fundamental laws of nature. "Unlike in Einstein's time when the relevant ...

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.” That may sound like the math version of ...

A Japanese entrepreneur is offering to shell out $1 million (140 million yen) to anyone who can finally resolve a deadlock over a proof of a math brainteaser. Nobuo Kawakami, the founder of Dwango Co.

Lost in the exhilaration surrounding this summer's presumed discovery of the Higgs boson, the subatomic particle that is a building block of the universe, were the theoretical clues that led to the ...

Isaac Asimov excelled at predicting the future. In one of his early science fiction stories, he introduced pocket calculators decades before you could buy them at Radio Shack. In a later book, he ...

A team of Italian mathematicians, including one who is also a neuroscientist from the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown (CCU), in Lisbon, Portugal, has shown that artificial vision machines can ...

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 ...

In the words of Imre Leader, a Professor at the Cambridge University: "The fundamental kind of question Ramsey theory asks is: can one always find order in chaos? If so, how much? Just how large a ...