Jordana Cepelewicz

An exploration of how artificial intelligence is changing what it means to do science and math, and what it means to be a scientist.

Mathematicians have started to prepare for a profound shift in what it means to do math.

Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future.

Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that continue to shape the field today.

The proof creates stricter limits on potential exceptions to the famous Riemann hypothesis.

Number theorist Ken Ono is teaching Olympians to swim more efficiently.

Useful mathematical concepts, like the number line, can linger for millennia before they are rigorously defined.

The topologist Danny Calegari discusses the inevitability of disappointment in math, and how to learn from it.

Mathematicians have disproved a major conjecture about the relationship between curvature and shape.