Discover the legacy of John Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician behind the Nash Equilibrium and a key figure in game ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

Mathematicians have long relied on a theorem that appears undeniably true, yet every attempt to formally prove it collapses. The contradiction has puzzled researchers for decades, raising questions ...

They used powerful mathematical theorems—including Gödel's incompleteness theorem—to prove that a complete and consistent description of everything requires what they call "non-algorithmic ...

ABSTRACT: In this paper, by applying the extension of Rubio de Francia’s extrapolation theorem in Lebesgue spaces with variable exponent, the boundedness of the θ-type Calderón-Zygmund operator T θ is ...

Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul. Work by Ingres. It was during this period that he came into contact with the theorems. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons His political stance allowed him to ...

A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her students. Then Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson stepped up to the challenge.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last ...

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to tell you about fascinating ideas from their corner of the ...