Having chosen death over exile after being charged with impiety and corrupting the youth of Greece, Socrates declared at his trial that the unexamined life was not worth living. Thus spawned millennia ...

athematics is, at its core, an art. Like painters, musicians or writers, mathematicians create and explore new worlds. They ...

Michel Serres, the philosopher of science, once wrote in praise of Plato. The wisdom of Plato’s philosophy lay in the fact that he could see philosophy both in a fairy tale and a mathematical theorem.

Artists and poets have long been inspired by the mathematical patterns found in nature—for instance, the remarkable fact that a sunflower's seeds follow the Fibonacci sequence. But there are myriad ...