There is a rule in mathematics that feels so obvious it barely seems worth stating. Yet accepting it leads to objects with no ...

The theorists who first created the mathematics that describe the behavior of the recently announced "invisibility cloak" have revealed a new analysis that may extend the current cloak's powers, ...

Researchers demonstrate that our brain need only perform a few lightning-fast statistical calculations to detect key properties of unknown objects. From a child snapping Legos together to a pickpocket ...

The equal sign is the bedrock of mathematics. It seems to make an entirely fundamental and uncontroversial statement: These things are exactly the same. But there is ...

"This is a cultural history of mathematics and art, from antiquity to the present. Mathematicians and artists have long been on a quest to understand the physical world they see before them and the ...

The theorists who first created the mathematics that describe the behavior of the recently announced “invisibility cloak” have revealed a new analysis that may extend the current cloak’s powers, ...