What is a black hole? ... Its author, Dr. Erik Curiel of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, summarizes the problem as follows: ...

Mathematics has a history of big contributions in the realm of black holes. In 1916, Karl Schwarzschild published a solution to Einstein’s equations for general relativity near a single ...

The number of these holes — one for each dimension — became known as the Betti numbers of the object in honor of Enrico Betti, a friend of Riemann’s who had attempted similar work. The modern ...

Black Holes as Particles In their study, the researchers used an obscure class of abstract mathematical functions to solve the formidable equations involved in determining the radiated energy from ...