A mathematical problem that had remained unsolved for more than 10 years in the physics of complex systems has finally been ...

For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended ...

Several fields of mathematics have developed in total isolation, using their own "undecipherable" coded languages. In a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Tamás ...

Mathematical physics is a research area focused on formulating and analyzing physical theories using rigorous mathematical structures and methods, and conversely, on developing new mathematics ...

“The Impossible Man,” by Patchen Barss, depicts the British mathematical physicist and Nobelist Sir Roger Penrose in all his iconoclastic complexity. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an ...

AI believer: Sanjeev Arora on the stage at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum explaining his ideas about superhuman AI mathematicians. (Courtesy: Christian Flemming/HLF) When researchers at Microsoft ...

Some scientists make discoveries. Others create entirely new ways of understanding the universe. Harish-Chandra belonged to ...

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. – Carl Frederick Gauss (1777–1855), German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist God ever geometrizes. – Plato (c ...

Physicists may have uncovered a surprising new clue that string theory—the idea that the universe is built from unimaginably tiny vibrating strings—could be more than just a mathematical fantasy.