In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics.
If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?
The theoretical physicist and best-selling author finds inspiration in politics and philosophy for rethinking space and time.
Paulina Rowińska is a science writer with a Ph.D. in mathematics from Imperial College London. Before joining Quanta Magazine ...
Despite their wide variety of sizes, niches and shapes, sharks scale geometrically, pointing to possible fundamental ...
To see how one cube can pass through another, imagine holding a cube over a table and examining its shadow (assuming it’s ...
The recent paper studies algorithmic pricing through the lens of game theory, an interdisciplinary field at the border of ...
The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact. Now, a young ...
The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, connects quantum mechanics to infinitely intricate mathematical structures. Hofstadter was ...
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