Mathematics

For Sylvia Serfaty, mathematics is all about truth and beauty and building scientific and human connections.

Can balloon animals help blunt uneasy feelings about “spooky action at a distance”?

The simple Möbius strip illustrates a deep mathematical challenge that has long tormented the field of symplectic geometry.

When two mathematicians raised pointed questions about a classic proof that no one really understood, they ignited a years-long debate about how much could be trusted in a new kind of geometry.

The ancient Greeks argued that the best life was filled with beauty, truth, justice, play and love. The mathematician Francis Su knows just where to find them.

When do negative results from a half-life experiment mean a theory is dead?

Just five days after posting a retraction, László Babai announced that he had fixed the error in his landmark graph isomorphism algorithm.

Gaining an intuition about half-life requires some unintuitive thinking.

The ancient study of an object’s curvature is guiding mathematicians toward a new understanding of simple equations.