Professor Raúl Rojas has published a book about how symbols have been used throughout history in mathematics. The work was translated into English this year.

In 2024, an AI entered the fray of the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). Google’s AlphaProof is part of the same ...

Ars Technica: The Voyager Golden Record is perhaps the best known example of humans attempting to communicate with an alien species, spearheaded by the late Carl Sagan, among others. But what are the ...

When elementary students experience math through multiple modes, they begin to see it as a language of design, rhythm, and ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

For over a decade, mathematicians have failed to agree whether a 500-page proof is actually correct. Now, translating the ...

The human eye is drawn to the rhythmic beauty of tiled patterns, which occur abundantly in nature. A database, collecting and classifying tile-like patterns in biology, aims to be a resource and ...

For years, plastic surgeons thought the proportions of a beautiful buttocks should follow the Fibonacci sequence. Now, people are looking for a more Kardashian shape.

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly prevalent, integrated into phone apps, search engines and social media platforms ...

Synchronization abounds in nature: from the flashing lights of fireflies to the movement of fish wriggling through the ocean, ...

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s ...