Mathematician Joshua Zahl made headlines for solving the 100-year-old math problem Kakeya conjecture. He is now leaving ...

Joshua Zahl, the American mathematician who recently solved the century-old Kakeya conjecture, is leaving Canada's UBC for a ...

A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a ...

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Noah Heywood reveals the brutality of renaissance mathematics, providing a view - via some of the best group scientific insights this academic year - of why the scientific freedoms of today should ...

World football's version of the bardo is upon us, and Spurs fans once again find themselves suspended in a liminal state of ...

The maths luminary is joining Nankai University as a full-time chair professor, months after publishing findings hailed as ...

From four-dimensional hexagons to the mind-bending amplituhedron, geometrical shapes are wilder than we learn at school - and ...

Greek geometry wasn’t just math—it was an attempt to decode the universe. Its logic still powers rockets, bridges, and every ...

Researchers from Skoltech and the University of Granada have found a way to speed up the architectural design of vaults and ...

The most famous packing problem concerns spheres. In 1611, the astronomer Johannes Kepler proposed that the densest way to ...

With the help of powerful computers, researchers discovered a four-sided shape that naturally rests on one side, and built a real-life version from carbon-fibre and tungsten ...