A new collection of arresting wallpaper designs seems to defy the crystallographic restriction.
An infinitesimal advance in the traveling salesman problem breathes new life into the search for improved approximate solutions.
A mathematical technique called “differential privacy” gives researchers access to vast repositories of personal data while meeting a high standard for privacy protection.
Thirty years after William Thurston articulated a grand mathematical vision, a proof by Ian Agol marks the end of an era in the study of three-dimensional shapes.