This passage sums up both the mathematical undercurrent of the book and its distinctive narrative style. Best known for decoding Serre’s conjecture—along with his French collaborator Jean-Pierre ...

The Collatz conjecture is an unsolved conjecture in mathematics. It is named after Lothar Collatz, who first proposed it in 1937. The conjecture is also known as the 3n + 1 conjecture, as the Ulam ...

Axiom Math, which has recruited top talent from Meta, has raised $64 million in seed funding to build an AI math whiz.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We construct a counterexample to the "hot spots" conjecture; there exists a bounded connected planar domain (with two holes) such that the ...

Alexander Grothendieck was a titan in his field, making deep connections that fuelled a revolution in mathematics, before giving it all up and disappearing. Jacob Aron explores what his work meant ...

In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.

For years, we were told to fear “global warming.” When our planet cooled, the slogan was rebranded as “climate change.” Meanwhile, the definition of “science” was bent to include computer models that ...

The Princeton University Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of six faculty members, including two full professors, three associate professors and one assistant professor.