History of science

Today’s information age is only possible thanks to the groundbreaking work of a lone genius.

For almost a century, the anonymous members of Nicolas Bourbaki have written books intended as pure expressions of mathematical thought.

Renormalization has become perhaps the single most important advance in theoretical physics in 50 years.

Mathematicians have long grappled with the reality that some problems just don’t have solutions.

Professional astronomers may not point their telescopes by hand anymore, but COVID-19 has still closed observatories and impeded research.

Symplectic geometry is a relatively new field with implications for much of modern mathematics. Here’s what it’s all about.

Why do mathematicians enjoy proving the same results in different ways?

Researchers are one step closer to injecting probability into deterministic machines.

One hundred years after it was proposed, the Ising model is used to understand everything from magnets to brains.