I’m a big fan of photography. I’ve been doing it for years, and I know my way around a camera. But I can’t even count how many times, mostly when I was younger, a random man—always a man—stopped me ...

Hidden Fibonacci numbers, a new shape and the search for a grand unified theory of mathematics are among our choices for most exciting findings of the year ...

The answer lies in a simple but powerful mathematical idea called “the house edge”: a small, systematic statistical advantage ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

Time travel is deterministic and locally free, a paper says—resolving an age-old paradox. This follows research observing that the present is not changed by a time-traveling qubit. It’s still not very ...

Mathematics is separated into several fields, including algebra, calculus, geometry, number theory, statistics, and others, each of which plays a different role in creating scientific, economic, and ...

Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical techniques to describe real-world systems and solve technologically relevant problems. This can include the mechanics of a moving body, the ...

THIS is a thoroughly good book which deserves to run through many editions. It is not (as its title might suggest) a book on mathematical logic or philosophy: it deals not with the nature of ...

Pi, a mathematical constant denoted by the Greek letter π, is the ratio of a circle's circumference C to its diameter d: π = C/d. The circumference of a circle is, in turn, equal to 2πr, where r is ...

Software engineering is the branch of computer science that deals with the design, development, testing, and maintenance of software applications. Software engineers apply engineering principles and ...