Interdisciplinary visual artist Timea Tihanyi and mathematician Jayadev Athreya, who are collaborating on Axiomatic. Photo: Clare McGrane, GeekWire. At first glance, Timea Tihanyi and Jayadev Athreya ...

Monstrous moonshine, a quirky pattern of the monster group in theoretical math, has a shadow -- umbral moonshine. Mathematicians have now proved this insight, known as the Umbral Moonshine Conjecture, ...

A classic math rule now handles infinity. New work strengthens the math behind physics and unbounded systems. % ...

Generations of children have pleaded with their parents, “Why do I need to study math?” They are told of such practical uses as counting money, following recipes, or comparing baseball averages. Ngo ...

BYU mathematics professor Doug Corey and a team of students created a YouTube channel devoted to applying theoretical math concepts to real-world problems. Imagine this: the BYU Cougars men’s ...

When Albert Einstein wrote an obituary for Emmy Noether in 1935, he described her as a “creative mathematical genius” who – despite “unselfish, significant work over a period of many years” – did not ...

Of all the scientific disciplines, pure math, also known as theoretical math, is arguably one of the most cerebral. While chemists tend to make discoveries in the lab, mathematicians are more likely ...

Mathematics, histopathology and genomics converge to confirm that the most aggressive clear cell renal cell carcinomas display low levels of intratumour heterogeneity, i.e. they contain fewer distinct ...

For a lot of students with a passion for math, it’s all about the numbers. They love the structure of it, the consistency of it. They love the formulas, that one plus one will always equal two. For ...