Given how much they can actually do, computers have a surprisingly simple basis. Indeed, the logic they use has worked so well that we have even started to think of them as analogous to the human ...

Scientists have discovered that a key function from a "pure" branch of mathematics can predict how often genetic mutations lead to changes in function. These rules, laid out by the so-called ...

Most of us are unaware of the hidden world of mathematics. Actually, we'd rather avoid the subject entirely. It's difficult and inaccessible. A lot of that has to do with the way we're introduced to ...

Trees depicted in the artwork of famous painters like Leonardo da Vinci and Piet Mondrian follow the math behind their branching pattern in nature, a new study says. This hidden math in some abstract ...

Meet the math professor whose algorithm helped make our digital world possible. Meet the math professor whose work helped make our digital world possible. Duke University mathematics professor Ingrid ...

From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). Most of the important discoveries in mathematics take place after decades or centuries of effort. If you want to attack the biggest problems, you’ll ...