Whenever I get coffee with a mathematician, I always ask which of the seven Millennium Problems they think will be next to ...

The word “futurism” was coined by Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in his famous 1909 manifesto. He later wrote another ...

For thousands of years, mathematicians avoided the concept of infinity. Then, in 1874, Georg Cantor published a four-page ...

In a new open-access study that I published with my late colleague Kostya Trachenko from Queen Mary University of London, I propose a surprisingly simple nonlinear mathematical equation that unifies ...

When Donald from Boston called The Ramsey Show recently, he expected a scolding. At 57, with a wife who is 64 and ready to ...

The Australian mathematician has been given one of the highest awards in the King’s Birthday Honours list. This is why.

A new retrospective of M.C. Escher’s work opens this week. Explore some of his most mind-bending, mathematically inspired works.

These are math’s most famous open questions. Solve one, and you’ll win a $1-million prize—but it’s only happened once since ...

Metanet is bringing minimalism and precise mechanics to consoles and PC next year.

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians ...

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got ...

The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to ...