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For four decades, a quiet boundary in pure mathematics kept a powerful theorem locked inside the safe world of finite quantities. Now a new result known as Sebestyen’s theorem has pushed that boundary ...

There are few things more pleasing to your average mathematician than when a result surprises you. Take e, for example – a transcendentally irrational number equal to a little more than 2.7 – and ...

The world may seem orderly, but randomness and chaos shape everything in the universe, from enormous galaxies all the way down to subatomic particles. Take a chilly window sheeting over with ice: even ...

A l’Institut national des sciences mathématiques et de leurs interactions, à l’université Paris-Saclay, le 17 septembre 2021. ALAIN JOCARD/AFP Les maths sont pleines de surprises. En témoigne une ...

Puzzle 1: You are given nine gold coins that look identical. You are told that one of them is fake, and that this coin weighs ...

What’s more, doing maths is often a collaborative endeavour – and can be a great source of fun and fulfilment when people ...

The article in the NATION NEWSPAPER today, headlined, “MRA security contracts stir debate” raises serious allegations and emotive concerns, but in doing so it risks collapsing legal nuance, ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...

Mathematics and computing is the study and analysis of abstract concepts, such as numbers and patterns. Mathematics is the language of choice for scientifically describing and modelling the universe ...