The geometric truth known as the Pythagorean theorem was discovered independently by several ancient civilisations. India's ...

Junqiao Lin has won the best student paper award at STOC, a premier conference in theoretical computer science held in Salt ...

The forces of nature converge to produce spirals and polygons and a multitude of other forms in both living and non-living ...

In a split ruling on two cases about whether states could ban trans students from school sports matching their gender ...

Last week, I introduced Emmy Noether, an extraordinary figure in the fields of mathematics and physics. To understand Noether ...

How Emmy Noether's theorem uses the Lagrangian to provide a formula for calculating the quantity of symmetries in a ...

In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph. D.

Noether discovered that for every continuous symmetry of a system, there is a conserved quantity—that is, a quantity that ...

Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...

Are two sets of data genuinely different, or is it because of randomness? This question, known as the two-sample testing problem, becomes notoriously difficult in modern datasets, because they are ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...